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■  .PRESBYTERIAN  COLLEGE  LIBRARY, 
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Summer,    1961 


ge   .    .    .    Page   3 
Alumnus   Develops   Hilton   Head   Island    .    .    .    Page   6 
Commencement    and    Reunion    .    .    .    Page    10 
c:,^s    Feature    Woodsons.    Vreeland    .    .    .    Pa- 


the 

PRESBYTERIAN  COLLEGE 
magazine 


Words  With 
The  President 


Summer,   1961 


Volume   14.  Number  2 


Edited  by  BEN  HAY  HAMMET  '43 
Director  of  Public  Relations  &  Alumni  Affairs 


Published   Quarterly  jnr  Presbyterian   College   Alumni  and   jriends.     Second 
class    postage    paid    at    Clinton,    S.    C. 


Member 

The    American    Alumni    Council 

The   American   College   Public   Relations   Association 


IN    THIS    ISSUE 


3  The  Lost  Language 

6  Hilton  Head  Island 

10  Commencement  Weekend 

12  And  Alumni  Reunion,  Too 

14  PC  Profile:  Woodson  Brothers 

15  PC  Profile:  Vreeland 

16  Across  the  Plaza 
18  Blue  Hose  Sports 

20  Down  Avenue  of  Classes 

25  Weddings  and  Births 

27  Spotlight  on  Higher  Education 


Alumni  Association  Board  of  Directors 

Dill  D.  Beckman,  LL.D.  ...President 

Albert   W.   Brice   ...  President-Elect 

J.   Hewlette  Wasson    _  Vice-President 
Rev.  Neil  E.  Truesdell,  D.D.  ..  ...  Secretary -Treasurer 

Col.  James  A.  Cheatham  .  South  Carolina  Director 

Thomas  D.  Todd  ._.  South  Carolina  Director 

George  Dunlap  ._  South  Carolina  Director 

Hugh  S.  Jacobs  South  Carolina  Director 

E.  C.   Hollingsworth,   Jr.  Georgia  Director 

Joseph  E.  Patrick   ...  Georgia  Director 

Rev.  Allen  McSween.D.D.  North  Carolina  Director 

S.  Cater  Ligon  North  Carolina  Director 

Donald   F.   Kirven  Past  President 


As  I  looked  at  my  signature  on  a  1961  diplo- 
ma, I  wondered  about  the  attitude  the  gradu- 
ating student  would  take  with  him. 

As  89.7  percent  of  the  2,853  graduates  of  this 
college  received  their  diplomas  since  I  came 
to  the  campus,  I  have  had  ample  opportunity 
to  note  that  some  high-ranking  students  failed 
to  develop  further  and  did  not  become  intel- 
lectual leaders  in  their  communities  as  we  had 
expected.  Some  other  graduates  who  failed  to 
utilize  fully  the  opportunities  of  college  life 
have  widened  their  intellectual  horizons  and 
have,  in  several  instances,  become  scholars 
recognized  with  great  respect  by  their  well- 
informed  colleagues.  Some  seem  to  forget  the 
help  given  them  by  the  College;  others  show 
increasing  interest  with  the  passing  of  the 
years  and  are  helpful  in  improving  our  pro- 
gram  and  equipment. 

\I7e  have  an  abiding  interest  in  every  former 
student.  We  rejoice  in  the  success  of  your 
achievements  and  sympathize  in  your  disap- 
pointments. I  hope  that  each  of  the  112  gradu- 
ates of  1961  will  make  your  training  here  a 
base  for  further  advance  and  will  keep  us  in- 
formed about  your  progress.  I  also  cordially 
invite  former  students  who  have  drifted  out 
of  touch  to  renew  those  ties  which  serve  to 
keep  fresh  the  memories  of  your  undergradu- 
ate days. 

Sincerely, 

TTLasuJLmJlW  <2^0^~~ 

COVER 

What  connection  has  this  lovely  ocean  scene  with 
Presbyterian  College?  This  strip  of  the  Atlantic 
coastline,  with  surf  and  tall  sea  pines  in  the  back- 
ground, is  part  of  Hilton  Head  Island.  It  is  being 
developed  into  a  multi-million-dollar  resort  attrac- 
tion by  PC  Alumnus  Charles  Fraser  '50  and  his 
father,  Lt.  Gen.  Joseph  B.  Fraser,  US  Army  (Ret.), 
longtime  trustee  of  the  College.  You'll  find  the  story 
on  page  6. 


Summer,   1961 


Noted   alumnus  speaks   here  of  the   unity 
of  knowledge  and  the   search   for 
a   method   of  communication 


/"\n  this  important  morning  when  significant 
academic  accomplishment  is  being  publicly 
recognized,  I  would  like  first  to  congratulate 
those  being  honored,  and  then  to  talk  to  all  of 
you  for  a  few  minutes  about  the  unity  of  know- 
ledge and  the  basic  harmony  of  these  subjects 
which  we  call  the  liberal  arts. 

At  first  glance,  that  probably  appears  to  be 
a  rather  unlikely  and  even  remote  subject. 
However,  I  am  reminded  of  three  separate 
kinds  of  occurrences  in  the  world  of  the  under- 
graduate education.  One  such  occurrence  is  the 
action  a  few  years  ago  of  the  Subcommittee  on 
Pre-professional  Education  of  the  Survey  of 
Medical  Education  of  the  American  Medical 
Association.  This  committee  recommended 
that  students  planning  the  study  of  medicine 
major  not  in  one  of  the  natural  sciences  but 
in  one  of  the  humanities  or  social  sciences. 
Similar  action  was  taken  by  the  national  as- 
sociation of  engineers,  calling  for  the  re-intro- 
duction of  and  renewed  emphasis  on  the  hu- 
manities and  social  sciences  in  engineering 
schools.  And  this  road  leads  both  ways.  As  a 
person  in  charge  of  the  admis- 
sion of  students  to  graduate 
study  in  English,  I  have  found 
that  the  score  made  on  the 
quantitative  factor  portion  of 
•the  Graduate  Record  Examina- 
tion is  a  significant  one.  I  can 
recall  with  some  pain  the  look 
of  shocked  surprise  that  I  have 
seen  on  the  faces  of  several 
young  men  and  women  to 
whom  I  have  had  to  say,  "Your 
verbal  factor  is  satisfactory; 
your  advanced  literature  score 
is  good;  but  your  quantitative 
factor  score  is  too  low."  "You 
mean,"  they  ask  incredulously, 
"that  you  want  me  to  know 
math.  Why,  I'm  in  English  be- 
cause I  hate  math!"  On  such 
occasions  what  I  always  feel 
like  saying  —  although  I  don't 
say  it— is,  "That's  a  mighty  poor  reason  for 
studying  English." 

One  of  the  undergraduate  courses  that  I 
have  taught  very  often  is  a  course  in  the  eight- 
eenth and  nineteenth  century  English  novel. 
I  have  discovered  that  I  get  in  this  course  a 
rather  high  enrollment  of  young  men  and  wom- 
en who  are  majoring  in  sociology  or  anthropo- 
logy, and  when  I  finally  began  inquiring  about 
it_in  the  secret  hope,  I  suppose,  that  the  noise 
of  my  fine  teaching  had  spread  abroad! — I  dis- 
covered the  humiliating  fact  that  their  major 
advisers   had   not   told   them   to   take   Holman 


By   C.   Hugh  Holman  '36 

Chairman,   Department  of  English 
University  of  North  Carolina 

but  to  take  courses  in  the  English  novel.  When 
I  had  at  last  reconciled  myself  to  the  hum- 
bling fact  that  my  subject  matter  is  more  im- 
portant than  I  am,  I  decided  that  such  advice 
was  a  good  thing. 

Now  this  is  a  rather  long  preamble  to  my 
point,  which  is  that  Truth  exists  in  its  absolute 
form  in  a  great  unity.  I  am  reminded  of  the 
analogy  that  Milton  makes  in  the  Areopagitica 
of  the  present  state  of  human  knowledge  to 
"the  virgin  Truth,  whose  lovely  form  (was 
hewn)  into  a  thousand  pieces,  and  scattered . . 
to  the  four  winds.  From  that  time  ever  since, 
(he  continues)  the  sad  friends  of  Truth  .  .  . 
went  up  and  down  gathering  up  limb  by  limb 
still  as  they  could  find  them.  We  have  not  yet 
found  them  all."  In  a  sense  our  separate  fields 
of  study  are  the  fragments  of  that  torn  body 
of  Truth,  each  subject  a  dismembered  part — 


here  a  head,  there  a  hand,  behind  that  bush  a 
foot,  yonder  lungs,  and  over  there  a  stomach, 
and  so  forth.  I  would  not  dare  be  more  specific 
in  this  analogy,  but  I  invite  you  to  seek  the 
proper  anatomical  analogy  for  your  subjects! 
Though  I  urge  you  to  do  it  in  charitable  mo- 
ments! 

The  real  danger  of  this  splintering  of  know- 
ledge is  that  we  lose  sight  of  its  essential 
unity.  In  order  to  become  skilled  in  the  medical 
sciences,  we  forget  that  other  significant  ranges 
of  thought  and  truth  exist.  We  fail  to  see  that 


Summer,  1961 


Holman  addresses  PC  student  body 

we  can  pursue  molecules  in  chemistry,  amoeba 
in  biology,  crucial  events  in  history,  the  details 
of  institutions  in  sociology,  and  images  in  poet- 
ry and  still  be  engaged  in  a  common  activity, 
be  seeking  a  common  truth,  be  speaking,  as  it 
were  a  common  language. 

Language — that  is  the  key  word.  For  edu- 
cation is  essentially  just  that  — a  search  for 
language,  for  a  method  of  communication.  Each 
of  the  disciplines  has  its  own  language:  in 
chemistry  it  is  a  structure  of  symbols,  in  mathe- 
matics it  is  the  short  hand  of  numbers,  in  philo- 
sophy it  is  the  concept  expressed  in  abstract 
terms,  in  poetry  it  is  the  concrete  image,  the 
"world's  body"  as  John  Crowe  Ransom  says, 
in  fiction  and  drama,  it  is  human  being  and 
actions.  The  extent  to  which  we  dedicate  our- 
selves to  any  one  of  these  languages  to  the  ex- 
clusion of  the  others  is  a  measure  of  our  insu- 
larity, of  our  provincialism. 

Perhaps  this  analogy  will  help.  English  is  a 
dialect  of  Low  German,  which  is  a  form  of 
West  German,  which  is  a  form  of  Germanic, 
which  is  a  branch  of  the  Indo-European  family 
of  languages — the  family  to  which  most  West- 
ern languages  belong.  Yet  the  basic  kinship 
among  English,  Sanskrit,  Frisian,  French,  and 
Hindustani — although  very  real — is  not  appar- 
ent to  any  except  the  skilled  linguist.  That  com- 
mon language  of  which  all  these  are  deriva- 
tives has  been  lost.  Ponder  for  a  moment,  if 
you  will,  how  much  more  peaceful,  happier, 
and  more  joyous  this  sad  and  weary  world 
would  be  if  somehow  the  accidents  of  history, 
mountain  range,  and  climate  had  not  made  us 
indifferent  to  and  finally  ignorant  of  the  na- 
ture of  our  basic  language,  and  if  we  could 
communicate  easily  with  each  other  all  over 
the  Western  World. 

Yet,  I  submit,  it  is  often  as  easy  to  under- 
stand a  speaker  of  French  or  German  as  it  is 
for  a  non-physicist  to  know  what  the  physicist 
is  talking  about.  And  the  poor  bewildered  stu- 


dent of  literature  who  stumbles  by  accident  on 
that  hidden  mountain  valley  where  they  are 
speaking  sociology  will  despair  of  both  reason 
and  grammar.  While  the  unfortunate  sociolo- 
gist who  tries  to  read  one  of  the  New  Critics 
may  very  well  decide  that  this  stuff  is  mean- 
inglessness  raised  to  the  ultimate  power.  In 
the  academic  community,  where  we  should  be 
living  in  a  vital  world  of  ideas,  a  unified  world, 
we  seem  to  me  very  often  to  be  living  in  the 
tightest  insularity  I  know  of  anywhere. 

The  essential  language  of  learning  is  the 
idea,  the  method  of  thought.  That  is  why  tra- 
ditionally the  philosopher  and  the  student  of 
law  were  reverenced  so  highly.  They  dealt 
with  systems  of  thought,  with  concepts  raised 
above  the  particular  and  the  circumstantial. 
At  their  best,  like  the  mathematician,  they 
gazed  upon  the  dazzling  beauty  of  pure 
thought.  "Euclid  alone  has  looked  on  Beauty 
bare,"  Edna  St.  Vincent  Millay  once  sang;  and, 
although  others  than  Euclid  and  the  mathema- 
ticians have  caught  a  glimpse  of  Truth  in  a 
refined  and  essential  state,  the  idea  she  ex- 
presses is  a  very  accurate  one. 

There  are  serious  tendencies  in  our  present 
day  thought  that  are  unfriendly  to  the  lan- 
guage of  ideas.  One  is  our  respect  for  fact — 
in  itself  an  admirable  thing,  if  properly  used, 
but  very  dangerous  when  we  decide  that  fact 
is  in  itself  meaningful  without  the  play  of 
mind  upon  it.  We  live  constantly  surrounded 
by  facts  which  must  be  ignored  if  we  are  to 
live  at  all;  we  find  our  greatest  disagreements 
over  what  a  given  set  of  facts  mean,  not  over 
what  they  are.  Yet  we  constantly  talk  and 
often  study  as  though  the  raw  fact  were  the 
key  to  wisdom.  The  sciences  seem  to  be  parti- 
cularly guilty  of  this  narrowness;  yet  the  basic 
element  of  the  scientific  process  is  the  refin- 
ing away  by  the  process  of  pure  thought  of  the 
particular,  the  immediate,  the  local  into  the 
universal  principal  which  can  explain  its  ac- 
tion. 

A  second  enemy  of  language  is  the  respect 
for  thing  and  feeling — an  altogether  admirable 
quality  which,  carried  to  excess  can  be  the 
enemy  of  intellect.  To  believe  that  the  thing 
is  more  important  than  our  word  for  it  or  our 
concepts  explaining  it  is  a  natural  result  of 
•  •  •  • 

Dr.  C.  Hugh  Holman,  chairman  of  the  English 
department  of  the  University  of  North  Carolina, 
has  established  a  national  reputation  in  the  field 
of   literary   criticism. 

A  1936  graduate  of  Presbyterian  College,  he 
served  on  the  PC  faculty  for  ten  years  and  has 
been  a  North  Carolina  professor  since  1949.  He 
stepped  up  to  head  his  department  in  1958  and 
shortly  thereafter  was  awarded  a  Kenan  Pro- 
fessorship for  distinguished  service.  Dr.  Holman's 
numerous  works  in  the  field  of  literary  criticism 
include  the  revised  A  Handbook  to  Literature.  He 
is  married   to   the  former  Verna   McLeod   '39. 

The  article  printed  here  was  first  presented  by 
Dr.  Holman  as  an  address  to  the  PC  student  body 
during   the   spring   Honors  Day   program. 


Summer,  1961 


'Education    is   essentially   a    search    for   language  .  .  ." 


our  pragmatism  and  of  our  present  interest  in 
semantics,  and  it  tends  to  correct  evils  that 
have  been  present  in  our  thinking.  To  believe 
that  the  evocation  of  feeling  is  more  impor- 
tant than  the  ideas  which  those  feelings  com- 
municate is  the  result  of  our  deepening  interest 
in  the  nature  of  art  and  of  the  self.  The  critic 
asserts  properly  that  the  language  of  art  is  a 
special  language  and  that  what  it  communi- 
cates is  incapable  of  being  fully  expressed  by 
other  means  and  speaks  uniquely  to  us  in  our 
deepest  selves.  Such  assertions  restore  man  to 
a  central  position  in  his  universe,  and  they  de- 
fine the  special  language  of  the  humanities. 

A  third  enemy  of  language  is  number.  We 
have  come  often  to  rely  on  statistics  as  the 
only  significant  manipulation  of  fact.  In  the 
social  sciences,  we  are  always  discovering 
averages,  defining  norms,  stating  medial  posi- 
tions. Our  standard  person  has  become  a  fig- 
ure, and  somehow  he  never  works  out  even, 
either.  He  is  .8  of  a  man,  or  1.3  persons,  or  6.9 
male  students.  And  what  he  accomplishes  is 
never  100'  <  but  always  fractional.  Now  this, 
too,  is  good;  for  it  brings  a  mental  discipline 
forcefully  to  bear  on  human  experience  and  it 
tells  us  useful  things  about  our  average  selves, 
however  fragmented  they  may  be.  But  it  will 
dehumanize  us  if  we  accept  it  as  the  only  way. 

The  trouble  is  that  these  are  dialects  of  a 
common  language  of  intellect,  of  the  various 
ways  in  which  mind  works  with  matter  and 
with  self.  Our  danger  is  that  we  shall  so  con- 
centrate on  these  dialects  that  we  shall  lose 
the  use  of  the  mother  tongue. 

The  central  problem  of  our  world  is  commu- 


nication between  people,  between  groups,  be- 
tween nations.  Thomas  Wolfe  spoke  truthfully 
for  all  of  us  when  he  said: 

Naked  and  alone  we  came  into  exile. 
In  her  dark  womb  we  did  not  know  our 
mother's  face;  from  the  prison  of  her 
flesh  have  we  come  into  the  unspeak- 
able and  incommunicable  prison  of  this 
earth  ....  Remembering  speechlessly 
we  seek  the  great  forgotten  language, 
the  lost  lane-end  into  heaven,  a  stone, 
a  leaf,  an  unfound  door. 
For  ourselves  and  for  each  other  the  liberal 
arts  point  toward  some  aspects  of  that  great 
forgotten  language.  But  we  must  use  them  to- 
gether, not  apart.  We  must  be  scientists,  math- 
ematicians, artists,  and  social  creatures  at  the 
same  time  if  we  are  to  live  effectively  in  our 
world.  We  must  keep  alive  the  great  mother 
language   of   intellect   of   which    these   aspects 
are  mere  dialects.  The  liberal  arts  are  the  com- 
bined not  the  isolated  areas  of  learning;  and  in 
a   program   of  study   such   as   you   have  here, 
they  will,  if  seriously  followed,  lead  you  to  be 
whole  men  and  not  fractions.  To  respect  fact 
without  worshiping  it;  to  see  the  things  of  this 
world  as  in  fact  they  are  and  to  treasure  and 
to  be  enriched  by  feeling,  without  surrender- 
ing to  anti-intellectualism;   to  count,  tabulate, 
and  numerically  evaluate  without  becoming  an 
automaton  more  appropriately  to  be  patented 
by  IBM  than  awarded  a  degree  by  Presbyterian 
College — these  are  ideals  for  a  liberal  educa- 
tion. 

To  that  task  I  challenge  you  to  dedicate  your- 
self. 


Six  of  the  eight  members  of  Presbyterian  College's  Sigma  Kappa  Alpha,  senior  honorary  scholastic 
fraternity,  are  pictured  here  with  Dr.  Hugh  Holman  who  addressed  the  Presbyterian  student  body  twice 
during  the  1981  Honors  Day  program.  This  group  includes,  left  to  right:  Mrs.  Doris  Nelson  of  Greenville; 
Maurice  Schwartz  of  Laurinburg,  N.  C;  Miss  Brenda  Gay  Maddox  of  Spartanburg,  S.  C;  Dr.  Holman;  Mrs. 
Grace  Infinger  Walker  and  Edward  D.  Johnson,  both  of  Clinton;  and  Donald  Kay  of  Anderson,  S.  C. 
Senior  members   absent   are   Billy    Ogden  of  Macon,  Ga„   and  Harry   G.   McDonnold  of   Asheville,   N.  C. 


PC  alumnus  Charles   Fraser 
turns   jungle   into    resort  attraction   on 


Hilton  Head  Island 


The  lure  of  an  island  paradise  has  always 
fascinated  man.  Match  it  with  the  oppor- 
tunity to  remold  one  of  South  Carolina's  his- 
toric but  "forgotten"  sea  islands  into  a  quali- 
ty resort  attraction  and  you  have  the  appeal 
of  Hilton  Head  Island  for  Charles  Fraser, 
Presbyterian  College  alumnus,  class  of  1950. 

Here  is  a  place  to  capture  the  imagination. 
The  earliest  of  New  World  explorations 
touched  its  shore — as  first  the  Spaniards, 
French  and  then  the  English  attempted  settle- 
ments— and  important  Civil  War  naval  action 
centered  here.  Then,  for  almost  a  century  it 
turned  back  to  its  sub-tropical  undergrowth 
and  its  wildlife  of  many  species  almost  un- 
known except  to  its  few  Negro  inhabitants  and 
to    occasional    sportsmen. 

Today,  Hilton  Head  Island,  situated  in  Port 
Royal  Sound  just  off  the  coast  of  Beaufort, 
has  prospects  of  becoming  South  Carolina's 
most  fashionable  seaside  resort.  The  5,200- 
acre  Sea  Pines  Plantation  area  is  being  de- 
veloped slowly  by  Fraser  and  his  enthusiastic 
young  Ivy  League  company.  They  seek  to 
make  man's  intrusion  upon  nature  subtle 
enough  to  preserve  its  majestic  beauty. 

Just  how  subtle  the  intrusion  is  witnessed 
in  the  alligators  that  swim  the  inland  lagoons, 
the  timid  deer  that  still  abound  and  often 
show  themselves  at  night,  the  two-square  miles 


of  wildlife  refuge,  and  the  forests  of  live 
oak  and  tall  sea  pines  that  maintain  their 
natural  identity  through  restrictive  home 
development. 

And  yet  some  areas  are  as  modern  as  the 
$1,000,000  golf  course,  an  18-hole  champion- 
ship course  reclaimed  from  rich  marsh  land 
by  digging  lagoons  to  provide  fill  for  the  fair- 
ways. Or  the  $900,000  William  Hilton  Inn, 
luxurious  ocean  front  motor  lodge  of  80  units. 

r* harles  Fraser  is  president  of  the  Sea  Pines 
Company,  which  has  jurisdiction  over  the 
southern  end  of  Hilton  Head.  His  father,  Lt. 
Gen.  Joseph  B.  Fraser,  USA  (Ret.),  a  Hines- 
ville,  Ga.,  lumberman  and  longtime  trustee  of 
Presbyterian  College,  serves  as  chairman  of 
the  company's  board  of  directors. 

A  1953  graduate  of  Yale  Law  School, 
Charles  has  given  his  energies  to  the  develop- 
ment of  the  island  since  completing  Air  Force 
service  in  1956.  He  had  made  special  study 
of  private  land-use  controls  in  anticipation  of 
his  project  and  had  spent  the  summer  of  1951 
as  a  beachcomber  searching  out  ideas  from 
the  patrons  and  real  estate  men  of  almost 
every  commercially  developed  beach  on  the 
Atlantic  Coast. 

He  has  been  joined  in  his  efforts  by  two 
Yale  classmates — Theron  L.  Caudle  of  Wades- 


Summer,  1961 


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boro,  N.  C,  and  John  McGrath  of  Long  Island, 
N.  Y.  —  and  by  Harvard  Fulbright  scholar 
John  Wade  of  Florence,  Ala.,  whose  land- 
planning  designs  for  Sea  Pines  have  been  cited 
for  exceptional  merit  by  the  International 
Urban  Design  Conference.  They  and  other 
young  officers  of  the  company  (average  age 
of  the  group  is  just  under  30  years)  give  a 
youthful  exuberance  and  imaginative  flair  to 
the  massive  project  of  literally  bringing  the 
island  up  from  jungle  status. 

Hilton  Head  is  the  largest  of  the  outer- 
barrier  islands  off  the  lower  Atlantic  Coast, 
containing  almost  30,000  acres  of  high  land. 
It  remained  virtually  undeveloped  until  eight 
years  ago,  although  historic  events  have  swirl- 
ed about  its  wilderness. 

Investigation  by  the  Smithsonian  Institute 
has  determined  that  four-foot-high  shell  rings 
found  on  the  island  were  built  by  the  earliest 
known  Indians  some  4,000  years  ago.  Soon  after 
Columbus  discovered  the  New  World,  Spanish 
longboats  pulled  ashore,  and  the  name  Spanish 
Wells  labels  the  place  where  they  filled  their 
casts  with  fresh  water.  DeAyllon  explored  the 
area  for  Spain  in  1521  and  founded  on  or  near 
this  island  a  town  known  as  San  Miguel  de 
Gualdape,  soon  abandoned.  Then  in  1562,  the 
French  Huguenots  made  a  try  at  settlement 
here.  Jean  Ribaut  sailed  into  Port  Royal 
Sound  to  establish  Charlesfort  as  a  bastion 
against  Spain,  but  this  effort  also  failed  after 
Ribaut  returned  to  France  and  the  settlers 
began  squabbling  over  Spanish  gold  seized 
from  the  Indians. 

■englishmen  first  touched  upon  the  island  in 
1663  and  named  it  for  their  sea  captain, 
William  Hilton.  He  explored  the  area  and 
published  the  first  reports  on  it.  Seven  years 
later   the   English   established   their   first   per- 


Charles  E.  Fraser  '50  (pointing)  reviews  a  feature 
of  their  Hilton  Head  island  development  with  his 
father,  Lt.  Gen.  Joseph  B.  Fraser,  as  they  look  over 
a  detailed  miniature  of  the  area. 


The  William  Hilton  Inn 


manent  Carolina  settlement  some  60  miles  up 
the  coast  at  Charles  Town. 

Between  the  Revolutionary  and  Civil  wars,  a 
plantation  system  in  which  hundreds  of  slaves 
cultivated  sea-island  cotton,  indigo  and 
rice — flourished  on  parts  of  the  island.  But 
this  era  came  to  a  dramatic  close  with  the 
invasion  of  the  Northern  fleet  in  November, 
1861.  Union  forces  stormed  ashore  in  one  of 
the  largest  amphibious  operations  prior  to 
World  War  II,  quickly  overthrew  the  lightly 
defended  Fort  Walker  and  made  Port  Royal 
Sound  the  headquarters  of  their  naval  block- 
ade of  the  southeastern  states  of  the  Confed- 
eracy. A  Union  garrison  of  up  to  50,000  troops 
remained  stationed  on  Hilton  Head  throughout 
the  war,  building  defensive  embankments  that 
still  remain.  And  the  naval  blockade  operating 
from  these  waters  was  a  decisive  element  in 
finally  strangling  the  South  into  defeat. 

So  much  for  history.  The  plantation  system 


Where   vacation    homes 

and  luxury   recreation 

make   subtle,   multi-million 

dollar   intrusion   upon    nature 


never  recovered  from  the  war, 
and  Hilton  Head  served  as  a 
wild  game  area  for  a  few 
wealthy  sportsmen  until  1950. 
It  was  then  that  a  Georgia 
syndicate,  which  included 
General  Fraser,  purchased  the 
entire  island  —  except  for  a 
cluster  of  small  holdings  by 
island  Negroes — for  more  than 
$1,000,000  cash. 

Since  that  time,  the  area's 
development  has  been  in  the 
hands  of  two  companies,  Hil- 
ton Head  Company  and  Sea 
Pines.  The  former  has  moved 
more  in  the  pattern  of  stand- 
ard beach  developments, 
while  Sea  Pines  adheres  to  the 
Fraser  philosophy  of  planned 
progress  with  prime  consid- 
eration to  aesthetic  values. 

The  12-mile  long  island, 
separated  from  the  mainland 
by  Broad  Creek  and  the  Intra- 
coastal  Waterway,  got  a  boost 
toward  revival  with  the  es- 
tablishment of  regular  ferry 
service  in  1953.  Then  in  May,  1957,  the  James 
F.  Byrnes  Memorial  bridge  opened  to  provide 
the  necessary  lifeline  to  the  general  public. 
Since  that  time,  the  volume  of  traffic  has 
steadily  increased  to  the  point  of  160,000  cars 
in  1960.  An  estimated  hike  of  15  percent  over 
this  total  is  expected  this  year. 

Cea  Pines  Plantation  encompasses  the  south- 
ern end  of  Hilton  Head  Island.  It  includes 
5,200  acres  of  woodlands  —  covered  for  the 
most  part  with  thick  forests  of  liveoaks,  pines, 
sabal  palms,  magnolia,  myrtle,  bays  and  hick- 
ory trees — fronting  on  four  miles  of  Atlantic 
beaches,  and  with  Calibogue  Sound  and  num- 
erous bays  to  the  rear.  Posing  one  of  the  most 
unusual  natural  attractions  are  the  two  miles 
of  beachfront  lined  with  a  magnificent  stand 
of  tall  virgin  pine. 

In  this  area  and  especially  within  the  un- 
touched wildlife  sanctuary  roam  the  deer, 
wild   pigs,    'possums,    raccoons,    squirrels,    and 


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Charles  Fraser  '50 


rabbits;  turkey,  and  numerous 
varieties  of  songbirds  abound. 
The  official  sanction  of  the 
National  Audubon  Society 
is  upon  this  area,  which  per- 
mits no  shooting  except  on 
the  300-acre  hunting  preserve. 
Only  those  birds  released 
from  the  breeding  stock  — 
quail,  chukar  partridge  and 
ring-neck  pheasant — are  killed 
under  controlled  conditions 
during  the  October-to-April 
season. 

The  waters  around  Hilton 
Head  offer  a  fisherman's  para- 
dise in  the  form  of  channel 
bass,  whiting,  trout,  drum, 
pompano,  mullet,  bluefish  and 
flounder  as  well  as  crabs, 
clam,  oysters  and  shrimp. 

Even  in  starting  with  all 
of  these  natural  assets,  the 
shaping  of  an  island  wilder- 
ness into  an  attractive  vaca- 
tionland  is  as  difficult  as  it  is 
intriguing.  And  in  his  deter- 
mination to  move  first-class 
every  step  of  the  way,  Charles  Fraser  made  his 
start  even  harder.   As  he  put  it: 

"We  almost  flopped  several  times  along  the 
way,  because  we  spent  money  on  economic 
study  and  architectural  design  rather  than  on 
advertising  and  promotion.  We  have  moved 
carefully  and  leisurely  in  evolving  the  plans 
of  just  what  you  do  with  an  island  like  this, 
matching  our  own  conservation  instincts  with 
approved  architectural  concepts  and  bringing 
in  the  immense  range  of  legal  control  which 
can  be  used  to  assure  proper  development." 
The  master  plans  for  the  development  of 
Sea  Pines  Plantation  are  the  outgrowth  of 
over  five  years  of  research  and  planning  by 
the  owners  and  a  number  of  prominent  archi- 
tectural, engineering  and  law  firms.  The  basic 
concepts,  implemented  in  the  designs  com- 
pleted in  July,  1957,  are  three-fold: 

"(1)  All  land  to  be  sold  subject  to  com- 
plete deed  restrictions  to  assure,  with  thorough 
enforcement  by  the  resident  ownership-man- 
agement, that  the  homes  and  other  structures 
constructed  within  the  Sea  Pines  boundaries 
are  attractive  in  appearance  and  appropriate 
to  their  neighborhoods; 

"  (2)  Development  of  a  full  range  of  rec- 
reational, sporting  and  cultural  facilities  for 
year-round  residents  and  vacationers  during 
the  four  seasons  of  the  year; 

This  mausoleum  in  an  old  plantation  cemetery 
is  a  reminder  of  an  earlier  day  in  the  history  of 
Hilton  Head.  The  inscribed  name  of  "Wm  C.  Bay- 
nard"  recalls  that  Ephriam  Baynard,  South  Carolina's 
first  millionaire,  reputedly  was  born  in  the  Baynard 
plantation  home,  built  of  tabby  around  1800  and  the 
ruins  of  which  may  be  seen  today. 

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"  (3)  Maintenance  of  at  least  two  square 
miles  of  Sea  Pines  in  an  undeveloped  con- 
dition, free  of  homes  and  other  buildings,  and 
managed  in  a  way  designed  to  preserve  the 
wildlife  and  natural  beauty  of  the  area." 

Jn  initial  task  was  the  establishment  of  a 
master  water  control  system  to  control  the 
water  table  of  the  area  through  the  use  of 
numerous  lagoons  and  canals.  Two  dams, 
located  at  the  north  and  south  ends  of  the 
system,  contain  48-inch  tide  gates  which  per- 
mit the  fresh  water  to  flow  out  but  prevent 
encroachment  by  saltwater.  An  effective  in- 
sect control  program,  development  of  utilities, 
of  road  and  walkway  systems  and  the  careful 
plotting  of  residential  areas  into  more  than 
2,500  prospective  home  sites  were  basic  to  the 
proper  launching  of  the  project. 

The  luxurious  William  Hilton  Inn,  operated 
by  the  Sea  Pines  Company,  was  opened  two 
years  ago  in  its  exotic,  beachfront  setting  as 
a  year-round  resort  center.  The  motor  lodge 
already  has  acquired  something  of  a  reputa- 
tion for  its  cuisine  and  as  a  convention  at- 
traction. 

A  marina  for  fishing,  tennis  courts  and  the 
expanding  shooting  preserve  all  are  conven- 
ient facilities  established  in  recent  years.  But 
the  most  formidable  project  in  the  recreation 
field  has  been  the  construction  of  Sea  Pines' 
18-hole  championship  golf  course.  Noted  golf 
architect  George  Cobb  designed  the  course, 
reclaiming  it  from  the  fresh-water  marshes 
by  moving  358,000  cubic  yards  of  earth.  More 
than  eight  miles  of  canals  and  lagoons  were 
constructed  to  form  the  ten  lagoons  and  eight 
other  water  hazards  strategically  placed 
throughout  the  course. 

Add  a  unique  feature:  some  50  alligators 
live  naturally  in  the  lagoons  on  the  golf 
course  and  may  at  times  be  seen  gliding  about. 

Federal  troops  are  depicted  here  making  an 
amphibious  landing  to  capture  Fort  Walker  on 
Hilton  Head  Island  on  November  7,  1861.  This  Port 
Royal  area  served  as  headquarters  for  the  Northern 
blockade    of    the    Southeast    during    the    Civil    War. 


To  the  island's  rear,  Calibogue  Sound 

And  the  par  three  15th  hole,  alone  represent- 
ing a  $175,000  investment,  plays  into  the  pre- 
vailing ocean  breezes  onto  a  green  overlook- 
ing the  Atlantic  Ocean — something  to  rival 
California's  famed  Pebble  Beach  course.  The 
back  nine  holes  were  opened  for  play  last 
October;  the  front  nine,  in  early  June. 

lWleanwhile,  as  facilities  and  visitors  increase, 
the  pace  of  residential  construction  has 
been  moving  ahead  steadily.  Since  Hilton 
Head  began  its  resort  development,  more 
than  900  lots  have  been  sold  and  over  250 
vacation  and  retirement  homes  have  been 
built  in   12   different  subdivision  areas. 

These  figures  include  the  entire  island  and 
are  not  limited  to  Fraser's  Sea  Pines  Planta- 
tion area,  which  has  had  a  slow,  controlled 
growth.  However,  more  than  $1,000,000  in  new 
residential  construction  is  predicted  for  Sea 
Pines  during  1961.  And  Fraser  forecasts  this 
amount  will  swell  to  $20,000,000  over  the 
next  eight  years. 

Future  plans  of  the  Sea  Pines  Company  are 
just  as  elaborate  as  those  which  already  have 
become  a  reality.  The  present  investment 
totals  more  than  $4,000,000,  exclusive  of  land 
and  residential  construction.  Now  the  plan- 
ning boards  call  for  construction  of  beach, 
golf  and  yacht  club  facilities  over  the  next 
three  years  at  a  cost  of  $2,000,000.  The  finan- 
cing of  these  projects  already  has  been  as- 
sured through  investments  of  the  same  com- 
pany that  developed  Palm  Beach,  Fla. 

"We're  now  solidly  over  the  hump,"  says 
Fraser  enthusiastically.  "There's  a  surge  of 
interest  among  fine  families  to  build  homes 
here  and  a  surge  of  working  capital  from  big 
firms  to  help  us  provide  more  facilities  and 
improvements." 

If  there's  a  special  gleam  in  Charles  Fras- 
er's eye,  it's  because  he  has  dreamed  the  long 
dream  of  an  obsession.  For  mixed  in  with  the 
present  beauty  of  Hilton  Head  and  its  prom- 
ise of  the  future  comes  a  call  from  the  past 
as  woodland  stillness  seems  to  awaken  from 
the  sleep  of  Indian,  Spaniard,  Frenchman  and 
of  English  planter  of  yesteryear. 


Summer,   1961 


Commencement 
Weekend 


Grant   Speaks 


Jt  patriotic  call  to  appreciate  the  privilege  of 
being  an  American  was  issued  to  112  grad- 
uating seniors  by  Presbyterian  College's  Scot- 
tish-born main  speaker  at  the  80th  commence- 
ment exercises  on  June  4. 

Dr.  Edward  D.  Grant,  Presbyterian  business 
leader  who  heads  the  Grant  Chemical  Com- 
pany of  Baton  Rouge,  spoke  to  a  near-capac- 
ity crowd  assembled  in  Belk  Auditorium  for 
the  closing  exercises.  The  final  Sunday  pro- 
gram ended  a  full  week-end  of  activity  which 
included  the  Alumni  Reunion  on  Saturday  and 
the  entire  commencement  schedule  compressed 
into  a  one-day  affair. 

"Do  you  know  what  freedom  means?"  Dr. 
Grant  asked.  "Do  you  know  what  democracy 
means?" 

The  speaker,  who  is  a  naturalized  American 
citizen,  urged  his  audience  to  recognize  the 
value  of  their  precious  heritage  and  to  guard 
it  with  zeal.  He  deplored  the  present-day  ten- 
dency of  Americans  to  speak  cynically  of  this 
country,  to  berate  the  government  and  public 


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servants  while  forfeiting  their  voting  right 
which  safeguards  our  freedom.  And  he  added: 

"We  dare  not  give  the  back  of  our  hand  to 
our  basic  structures  of  government,  for  they 
are  the  very  foundations  of  our  country." 

Presbyterian  College  also  awarded  honorary 
degrees  to  three  alumni  as  part  of  the  exer- 
cises. Doctor  of  divinity  degrees  were  bestowed 
upon  the  Rev.  John  D.  Henderson  '21,  pastor 
of  the  Riviera  Presbyterian  Church  of  South 
Miami,  Fla.,  and  the  Rev.  Hubert  G.  Wardlaw 
'38,  pastor  of  Atlanta's  Rock  Spring  Presbyte- 
rian Church.  A  doctor  of  laws  degree  went  to 
Maj.  Gen.  Ansel  B.  Godfrey  of  Clinton,  com- 
mander of  the  51st  Infantry  Division,  Army 
National  Guard. 

Dr.  Wardlaw  preached  the  baccalaureate  ser- 
mon at  the  opening  service  on  Sunday  morn- 
ing. Speaking  on  the  subject,  "More  Than  Con- 
querors," he  said: 

"When  many  are  saying  the  lights  of  God 
are  being  blown  out,  who  shall  be  able  to 
(continued  on  page  13) 

Summer,   1961 


Among  the  honored  graduates 
at  the  1961  commencement  exer- 
cises were  (left  to  right):  Paul 
Ard  of  Atlanta;  Brenda  Gay 
Maddox  of  Spartanburg,  S.  C; 
and  Maurice  Schwartz  of  Laurin- 
burg,  N.  C.  Miss  Maddox  com- 
pleted her  college  career  with 
the  class'  top  scholastic  average. 
Ard  and  Schwartz  received  Gold 
P  awards  for  meritorious  service. 
And  Ard  added  the  "outstanding 
senior"  citation  and  two  military 
awards. 


Summer,  1961 


11 


Henderson,  Godfrey,  Wardlaw  receive  honorary  degree  hoods 


Gen.  Godfrey  at  pre-commissioning 


Trustee  Chairman  Robert  Vance  on  diploma  line 


And  Alumni 


Presentation  of  the  1961  Alum- 
ni Gold  P  Award  is  being  made 
here  to  missionary  Hoyt  Miller 
(right)  '15  by  President  Marshall 
W.  Brown.  The  scene  is  the 
Alumni  Banquet,  and  Mrs.  Brown 
and  John  Holland  Hunter  '18  are 
pictured  in  the   foreground. 


Summer,   1961 


Commencement   Weekend  Cott't.  .  .  . 

separate  us  from  the  love  of  God?  . . .  There 
is  a  thrust  to  this  thing  we  know  as  life — a 
great  challenge.  God  in  His  wisdom  has  placed 
infinity  in  our  hearts." 

^kne  of  the  largest  crowds  of  parents  and 
friends  ever  to  attend  a  PC  graduation 
turned  out  for  the  1961  product.  Between  the 
baccalaureate  and  commencement  programs, 
they  were  entertained  with  dinner  in  the  col- 
lege dining  hall,  the  president's  reception  and 
pre-commissioning  ceremonies  of  senior  ROTC 
cadets. 

Some  alumni  remained  for  the  commence- 
ment exercises  after  returning  to  the  campus 
the  day  before  for  PC's  second  springtime 
Alumni  Reunion. 

Members  of  the  1918  and  1936  classes  pro- 
vided the  biggest  turnouts  among  reunion 
classes  for  the  Saturday  afternoon  and  eve- 
ning activities.  Sixty  arrived  early  enough  for 
the  opening  session  at  which  Professor  John 
Glover  delivered  an  interesting  appraisal  of 
the  Latin  American  situation,  and  approxi- 
mately 175  persons  attended  the  Alumni  Ban- 
quet to  hear  missionary  A.  Hoyt  Miller  '15 
speak  on  the  Congo. 


Professor  John  Glover   speaks  on  Latin  America 
at  the  Alumni  Institute. 


Reunion,  Too 


Hoyt  Miller  tells  Alumni  Ban- 
quet   about    Congo. 


PC   PREP    for   alumni   children   held   its   second   se-.sion   as   part  of   the   Reunion  program.    Here   you   see 
some  of  the  activity  as  PC  athletes  Paul  Love  and  Bobby  Joiner  assist  with  the  entertainment. 


Summer,   1961 


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PC   Profiles 

A   pair   of   brief 
feafures  on   notable 
alumni   achievement 


Woodson  Brothers: 
Careers  of  Service 


Cuccess  has  marked  the  path  of  numerous 
brother  teams  moving  out  from  Presby- 
terian College  upon  various  careers.  The 
Woodson  brothers  —  whose  minister  father 
sent  three  sons  here — have  achieved  their 
measure  of  it. 

One  brother  Lewis  B.  Woodson  (BA,  1920), 
died  relatively  young  as  a  Washington  attor- 
ney. So  this  article  focuses  briefly  on  Robert 
Singleton  Woodson  '16  and  Marshall  Scott 
Woodson  '20,  both  ministers  who  serve  be- 
yond their  call. 

Robert  Woodson,  former  moderator  of  both 
the  Synod  of  Arkansas  and  the  Synod  of 
Mississippi  and  author  of  two  widely  used  de- 
votional booklets,  recently  became  associate 
minister  of  Charlotte's  Trinity  Presbyterian 
Church. 

Marshall  Woodson — after  ten  years  as  pres- 
ident of  Flora  Macdonald  College — in  1960 
assumed  the  presidency  of  the  Edgar  Tufts 
Memorial  Association,  a  group  of  three  affili- 
ated institutions  including  Lees-McRae  Col- 
lege. This  "Who's  Who"  alumnus  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Conference  of  Church  Related 
Colleges  in  the  South  last  year. 

Both  of  these  alumni  volunteered  as  young 
men  for  Navy  service  in  World  War  I  (and 
later  served  as  chaplains  throughout  World 
War  II.  Robert  had  recently  finished  PC  and 
delayed  his  seminary  training  to  enter  the 
Navy.  Marshall,  two  years  behind  him  in  col- 
lege, interrupted  his  college  studies  for  an  18- 
month  tour  of  duty,  then  returned  to  graduate. 

The  striking  similarity  of  their  activity 
found  both  men  acquiring  bachelor  of  divinity 


Robert  S.  Woodson  '16 
minister-author 


degrees  at  Columbia  Thelogical  Seminary,  MA 
degrees  at  the  University  of  South  Carolina 
and  doctorates  of  theology  at  Union  Theologi- 
cal Seminary  of  Richmond.  Both  also  acquired 
South  Carolina  wives  —  Robert,  the  former 
Janie  James  McDill  of  Chester;  Marshall,  the 
former  Emmie  Osteen  of  Sumter.  The  latter's 
two  sons,  Marshall  Jr.,  '48  and  Charles  '52, 
both  are  graduates  of  PC. 

Robert  Woodson  began  his  ministry  as  pas- 
tor of  the  Andalusia  (Ala.)  First  Presbyterian 
Church  in  1922-23.  He  spent  the  next  13  years 
involved  in  student  work:  at  Charlottesville 
among  University  of  Virginia  students,  1923- 
27;  then  Starkville  and  Mississippi  State  from 
1927  to  1936.  He  filled  the  pulpits  of  the 
Tupelo  (Miss.)  First  Church  (1936-39)  and 
the  Hot  Springs  (Ark.)  First  Church  (1939- 
40)  prior  to  five  years'  duty  as  an  Army 
chaplain. 

While  in  service,  he  prepared  the  devo- 
tional booklets  "Spiritual  K  Rations"  and 
"Spiritual  Service  Record"  of  which  more 
than  one-third  of  a  million  were  distributed 
among  service  personnel.  After  the  war,  he 
entered  upon  the  pastorate  of  his  longest  ten- 
ure as  minister  of  the  Yazoo  City  (Miss.) 
First  Church,  from  1946  until  his  departure 
for  Charlotte  in  1958. 

IV/farshall  Woodson  served  as  pastor  of  four 
churches  before  assuming  the  presidency 
of  Flora  Macdonald  College  in  1949.  He  started 
with  three  years  at  the  Decatur  (Ga.)  Oak- 
hurst  Presbyterian  Church  (1923-26)  spent 
two    terms    at    the    Thomasville     (Ga.)     First 


Marshall  S.  Woodson  '20 
minister-educator 


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Summer,  1961 


Church  (1926-30  and  1945-49),  and  also  preach- 
ed at  the  Salisbury  (NC)  First  Church  (1930- 
37)  and  the  Tampa  (Fla.)  First  Church  (1937- 
43)  immediately  prior  to  three  years  as  a 
Navy  chaplain. 

He  served  Flora  Macdonald  well  as  presi- 
dent, was  elected  moderator  of  the  North 
Carolina  Synod  and  was  acting  president  of 
the  consolidation  program  which  merged  his 
women's  school  and  two  others  into  the  pres- 
ent   new    St.    Andrews    Presbyterian    College 


at  Laurinburg,  N.  C.  On  January  2,  1960,  he 
began  his  work  as  president  of  the  Edgar 
Tufts  Memorial  Association,  which  involves 
heading  the  Grandfather  Home  for  Children, 
Grace  Hartley  Hospital  and  Lees-McRae  Col- 
lege. Of  this  project,  he  reports: 

"To  my  mind,  the  work  at  Banner  Elk  is 
unique.  As  far  as  I  know,  there  is  nothing 
like  it  in  the  Southland.  It  is  a  real  challenge 
and  one  which  lays  hold  upon  every  resource 
of  mind  and  heart  that  I  possess." 


Jack    Vreeland    '49   aids    North    American's    nuclear    rocket    engine    program 

Toward  a  Mission  to  Planet  Mars 


H  mission  to  Planet  Mars  "in  ten  years  or  so" 
beckons  the  scientific  imagination  of  Jack 
Vreeland  '49. 

This  young  PC  alumnus  is  now  serving  as 
senior  technical  specialist  with  the  Rocketdyne 
division  of  North  American  Aviation  in  Cali- 
fornia. Since  joining  the  operation  last  year, 
he  has  been  working  on  a  nuclear  rocket  engine 
which  is  expected  to  fly  about  1965.  Dr.  Vree- 
land reports: 

"I  am  proud  to  say  that  Rocketdyne  leads 
the  field  of  rocket  propulsion  as  Westing- 
house  leads  the  field  in  reactor  design.  About 
21  of  the  23  successful  satellites  have  been 
powered  with  Rocketdyne  engines.  Our  inter- 
est is  not  just  the  development  of  a  nuclear 
engine  .  .  .  we  are  preparing  a  mission  to  Mars 
in  ten  years  or  so." 

Jack  Vreeland,  who  has  distinguished  him- 
self with  ten  years  devoted  to  the  study  of 
nuclear  physics,  worked  at  the  Westinghouse 
atomic  power  department  from  1955  to  1960. 
During  this  period,  he  attained  the  status  of 
Fellow  Scientist,  was  the  recipient  of  five  pat- 
ent awards  relating  to  nuclear  reactors  and 
became  registered  as  a  professional  nuclear 
engineer.  He  was  responsible  for  incorporating 
recent  developments  in  nuclear  physics  into 
the  reactor  design  program  at  Westinghouse, 
for  the  study  of  the  Westinghouse  Variable 
Loading  Test  Reactor  and  for  the  reactor  ki- 
netics program  of  the  Pennsylvania  Advanced 
Reactor. 

Upon  his  graduation  with  a  doctorate  from 
the  University  of  Wisconsin  in  1955,  the  new 
field  of  atomic  energy  had  just  opened  up  with 
the  1954  revision  of  the  Atomic  Energy  Act. 
As  he  puts  it: 

"I  found  the  potential  of  the  peaceful  uses 
of  atomic  energy  an  exciting  area  for  my  newly 


developed  abilities.  I  really  did  like  Westing- 
house and  am  proud  to  have  worked  for  this 
organization.  The  potential  of  reactor  power, 
however,  appears  to  be  a  decade  or  so  away; 
and  so,  with  this  realization,  I  fell  readily  for 
the  invitation  extended  me  at  the  Physical 
Society  meeting  in  New  York  last  year  to  work 
on  the  exploration  of  space.  I  regret  to  say 
that  at  my  age  I  will  probably  never  experi- 
ence space  myself,  but  it  is  certain  that  those 
who  do  will  require  nuclear  energy." 

Jack  Vreeland  came  from  Orlando,  Fla.,  to 
enter  Presbyterian  College  in  1946,  majored  in 
physics  under  Dr.  Neill  G.  Whitelaw,  was  es- 
pecially active  in  the  International  Relations 
Club  and  received  his  BS  degree  with  honors 
in  1949.  All  of  his  post-graduate  work,  for 
master's  and  doctorate,  has  been  done  at  the 
University  of  Wisconsin. 

Along  the  way,  he  married  the  former  Car- 
olyn R.  Steitz,  acquired  two  sons  and  put 
enough  into  his  church  work  to  rank  as  a 
Presbyterian  Elder.  He  and  the  family  now  re- 
side  at   23824   Aetna    Street,    Woodland    Hills. 

Tnto  the  long  hours  of  his  job  he  also  has  man- 
aged to  wedge  enough  time  to  publish  his 
research  findings  in  foreign  and  domestic 
journals  and  to  deliver  papers  before  various 
scientific  groups  and  societies.  Some  of  his  re- 
cent "spare  time"  has  gone  to  teaching  a  course 
in  modern  physics  at  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia at  Los  Angeles  and  another  course  in 
nuclear  rocket  theory  at  Rocketdyne. 

Jack  Vreeland's  principal  responsibility  at 
the  Rocketdyne  Nuclionics  Department  is  to 
carry  out  nuclear  analyses  appropriate  to  roc- 
ket propulsion  applications.  So  this  PC  alum- 
nus plays  an  important  role  in  this  nation's 
accelerating  race  into  space. 


Summer,  1961 


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■  1 

Presbyterian  Is  One  of  Nine  Institutions  to 
share  in  a  $9,000  grant  to  the  South  Carolina 
Foundation  of  Independent  Colleges  made  by 
the  United  States  Steel  Foundation.  This  is 
the  1961  edition  of  a  program  conducted  an- 
nually by  US  Steel  among  non-tax-supported 
colleges  of  the  nation. 

• 
Largest  Summer  School  Enrollment  in  re- 
cent years  was  recorded  in  early  June  when 
130  students  registered  for  the  first  term  of 
the  1961  session.  This  session  saw  the  inau- 
guration of  an  expanded  summer  program,  pro- 
viding for  two  terms  and  a  maximum  of  12 
credit  hours  instead  of  the  previous  one  term 
carrying  nine  hours  of  credit.  PC's  first  sum- 
mer term  is  scheduled  to  extend  through  July 
19;  the  second  term,  from  July  20  registration 
through  August  25. 

• 
Meetings  and  Conferences  Also  Dot  the  Cam- 
pus Landscape  as  part  of  the  summer  program 
of  activities  here.  The  South  Carolina  State 
Chamber  of  Commerce  kicked  things  off  with 
its   annual   Industrial    Management   Workshop 

PC  tapped  four  for  the  Sophomore  Academic 
Honor  Society  this  year.  Two  are  pictured  here  with 
Dr.  Hugh  Holman,  Honors  Day  speaker,  and  Dr. 
Newton  Jones,  chairman  of  the  PC  history  depart- 
ment. Shown  here,  left  to  right,  are:  Dr.  Holman; 
Robert  Piephoff  of  Greenville,  S.  C;  Dr.  Jones;  and 
Miss  Christine  Wilson  of  Monroe,  N.  C.  Two  not 
present  are  Miss  Martha  Ann  Monroe  of  Laurens, 
S.  C,  and  John  Gettys  of  Union,   S.  C. 


within  a  few  days  after  the  commencement 
dust  had  settled.  Next  came  the  young  people 
of  the  South  Carolina  Synod  engaged  in  their 
Leadership  Training  School,  followed  by  the 
14th  annual  Synodical  Training  School  staged 
by  Presbyterian  women  of  the  state.  Other  ac- 
tivities include  the  Senior  High  Fellowship 
conference  of  Congaree  (SC)  Presbytery  and 
the  summer  stated  meeting  of  Athens  (Ga.) 
Presbytery. 

• 
Thirty-Nine  Students  Qualified  for  the 
Dean's  List  for  the  spring  semester  of  the 
1960-61  session  at  Presbyterian.  Seven  of  these 
scholastically  superlative  ones  compiled  all — 
"A"  averages:  David  Borland  of  Atlanta;  Jack 
Clontz  of  Charlotte;  Bill  Littlefield  of  Wood- 
ruff; Brenda  Gay  Maddox  of  Spartanburg; 
Mrs.  Marianne  Scheele  of  Clinton;  Maurice 
Schwartz  of  Laurinburg,  N.  C;  and  Mrs.  Sue 
Ellen  Spratt  of  Fredericksburg,  Va. 

• 
His   Four-Year    Tour   of   Duty   at   PC   Now 
Completed,  Lt.  Col.  W.  W.  Barnett  will  attend 
the   Command   and    General    Staff   College    at 


South  Carolina  Lt.  Gov.  Burnet  R.  Maybank  is 
pictured  here  at  left  with  the  officers  of  the  Presby- 
terian College  chapter  of  the  Blue  Key  national 
leadership  fraternity.  Talking  with  him  during  his 
spring  campus  visit  to  address  the  Blue  Key  banquet 
are:  President  Paul  Ard  of  Atlanta;  Treasurer  Herb 
Hammett  of  Hogansville,  Ga.;  and  Secretary  Evin 
Varner  of  Bennettsville,  S.  C. 


Summer,   1961 


Fort  Leavenworth,  Kans.,  beginning  next  fall. 
He  will  report  to  the  army  school  on  August 
1G  for  the  18-week  associate  course.  Col.  Bar- 
nett  came  to  Presbyterian  in  1957  to  assume 
command  of  the  ROTC  unit  as  professor  of 
military  science. 

• 
S.  Taylor  Martin  Has  Received  Another 
Grant  from  the  National  Science  Foundation 
for  additional  study  in  the  field  of  mathemat- 
ics. PC's  associate  professor  of  mathematics  is 
now  attending  the  Foundation's  Summer  Insti- 
tute at  Georgia  Tech,  marking  the  second 
straight  year  he  has  worked  under  this  type  of 
grant.  He  studied  at  Stanford  University  for 
six  weeks  last  summer. 


Dedication  of  the  1961  PaC  SaC  went  to  Ken- 
neth N.  Baker,  professor  of  commerce,  express- 
ed in  these  words:  ". . .  His  presence  has  been 
felt  on  our  campus  for  almost  a  quarter  of  a 
century,  during  which  time  he  has  inspired 
many  hundreds  of  students  by  his  unswerving 
devotion  to  the  well-being  and  future  great- 
ness  of  Presbyterian  College  . . ." 


Commencement  Awards 

General  Scholarship  Medal  —  Brenda  Gay 
Maddox,  Spartanburg,  S.  C. 

Outstanding  Senior  Award — Paul  Ard,  At- 
lanta. 

American  Legion  Award — Bill  Sease,  Clin- 
ton. 

Gold  P  Awards  for  meritorious  service — 
Maurice  Schwartz,  Laurinburg,  N.  C;  and  Paul 
Ard. 

Pi  Kappa  Phi  Freshman  Scholastic  Award — 
Marion  Boozer,  Gaffney,  S.  C. 

Fred  J.  Hay  Bible  Medal  for  highest  average 
in  two  years  of  Bible — John  Gettys,  Union,  S.  C. 

Fraser  Bible  Medal  for  highest  freshman 
Bible  average — Linda  C.  Traynham,  Laurens, 
S.  C. 

Ministerial  Club  Award — Jerry  R.  Puckett, 
Kannapolis,  N.  C. 

F.  H.  Mendenhall,  Sr.,  International  Rela- 
tions Club  Award — Rebecca  Earnest,  Macon, 
Ga. 

Kappa  Alpha  Athletic  Trophy — William  S. 
Ogden,  Macon,  Ga. 

Herk  M.  Wise  Scholarship  to  rising  senior 
entering  full-time  Christian  service — Sanders 
J.  Read,  Jr.,  McClellanville,  S.  C. 

Pi  Kappa  Alpha  Scholarship  Awards  —  to 
rising  sophomore,  Charles  May,  Bainbridge, 
Ga.;  to  rising  junior,  John  Henderson,  South 
Miami,  Fla. 

Department  of  Army  Superior  Cadet  Rib- 
bon— Paul  Ard. 

Third  Army  Leadership  Certificate  —  Ard. 


A  military  awards  display,  honoring  the  late  Col. 
Robert  E.  Wysor,  Jr.,  of  Clinton  and  including  medals 
presented  annually  to  outstanding  cadets  of  the 
Presbyterian  College  ROTC  unit,  has  been  prepared 
by  the  PC  military  department  for  exhibition  in  the 
Douglas   House   student   center. 

Mrs.  Wysor,  widow  of  the  U.S.  Army  officer  who 
spent  eight  years  as  professor  of  military  science  at 
Presbyterian,  is  pictured  here  viewing  the  display 
with  Lt.  Col.  W.  W.  Barnett,  present  ROTC  head, 
and  President  Marshall  W.  Brown.  Mrs.  Wysor  con- 
tinues to  give  two  of  the  awards  started  by  her  hus- 
band— a  saber  in  his  honor  to  the  best  company 
commander  and  a  "best-drilled-freshman"  medal  in 
memory  of  her  son,  Robert  E.  Wysor,  III.  A  picture 
of  Col.  Wysor  and  five  other  medals  also  are  in- 
cluded in  the  display. 

Robert  E.  Wysor,  Jr.  Saber  to  best  company 
commander — Tom  Middleton,   Jefferson,  S.   C. 

Dugald  Hudson  Award  for  highest  senior 
military    average — Fred    D.    Clarke,    Laurens. 

Hudson  Award  for  highest  junior  class  av- 
erage— William  S.  Ogden. 

Society  of  Scabbard  &  Blade  Medal — Ogden. 

Army  of  the  United  States  Armor  Award — 
Harrison  Clayton,  Marietta,  Ga. 


The  new  infrared  spectrophotometer  is  being 
operated  here  by  Dr.  K.  Nolon  Carter,  chairman  of 
the  PC  chemistry  department.  This  scientific  in- 
strument, used  mainly  for  qualitative  and  quantita- 
tive analysis  of  organic  compounds,  was  presented  to 
Presbyterian  College  recently  as  the  gift  of  the  R.  E. 
Ferguson   family  of   Clinton. 


Summer,  1961 


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Blue  Hose  Sports 


^  Leighton  Plays  Final  Set 


PC   tennis   coach   ends    12-year  tenure   after   receiving 
degree,    points  to   graduate   school   and    new   career 


Tim  Leighton,  looking  to  graduate  school  after 
*  receiving  his  BA  degree  from  Presbyterian 
in  June,  snapped  a  12-year  tennis  reign  as  one 
of  the  most  successful  coaches  in  Blue  Hose 
sports  history. 

He  directed  PC  net  teams  to  a  total  of  155 
victories  and  57  defeats  while  playing  some  of 
the  top  tennis  powers  in  the  country.  And  in 
the  process,  his  squads  dominated  the  South 
Carolina  court  picture  by  sweeping  11  state 
titles. 

(Ironically,  only  in  his  final  year  did  the 
Hosemen  let  slip  from  PC  possession  the  state 
championship  trophy  which  had  rested  here 
since  1937.  In  the  1961  tournament,  a  veteran 
squad  of  seven  Blue  Hose  lettermen  lost  to  a 
fired-up  Citadel  group  by  one  point  under  the 
team  scoring  system.) 

Leighton  came  to  Presbyterian  College  in 
1949  to  assume  command  of  a  tennis  program 
that  already  had  achieved  national  recognition 
over  the  previous  decade.  He  remained  to  es- 
tablish  the   longest   tenure   of   any  PC   tennis 


coach  and  to  develop  some  of  the  brightest 
stars  in  the  Blue  Hose  sports  firmament. 

More  than  a  dozen  of  these  former  players 
returned  to  the  campus  recently  to  pay  tribute 
to  their  coach  and  to  stage  an  old-timers  tour- 
nament. 

In  the  vanguard  came  Allen  Morris,  the 
greatest  netman  of  them  all,  Davis  Cup  squad- 
member  who  went  to  the  quarter-finals  at 
Wimbledon  in  1956,  whipping  Australia's  Ash- 
ley Cooper  before  losing  to  Vic  Seixas.  Morris, 
during  his  playing  days  at  PC,  was  ranked 
second  in  the  South  and  17th  nationally  among 
all  amateurs. 

The  12  years  under  Leighton  saw  PC  sweep 
past  such  highly  touted  net  powers  as  Har- 
vard, Yale,  Princeton,  University  of  Miami, 
Cornell,  North  Carolina,  Duke,  University  of 
Texas,  Georgia  Tech,  Michigan  State  and  Flo- 
rida. Other  big-name  universities  and  numer- 
ous lesser  ones  also  fell  before  PC's  smooth- 
stroking   racquets. 

Biggest  victory  on  the  record  book  for  Coach 


A  group  of  the  former  players,  who  battled  under 
Leighton  to  keep  PC  in  the  front  ranks  of  inter- 
collegiate tennis,  returned  to  the  campus  this  spring 
to  bid  him  farewell.  They  are,  left  to  right,  kneeling: 
Bill  Toole  '56,  Harvey  Jackson  '57.  Bill  Bradley  '54, 
Bill  Harper  '50,  Bob  Daniel  '59   and  Ron  Wright  '60. 

Standing:  Jim  Shakespeare  '59,  Frank  Spears  '52, 
Warren  Berry  '55,  Jerry  Hunt  '56,  Leighton,  Allen 
Morris  '56,  Guice  Potter  '58,  Jimmy  Peck  '58,  Ferd 
Jacobs  '50  and  Righton  Lyndon  '51. 


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One  more  tip  to  Allen  Morris 

Leighton  came  in  April,  1957.  Led  by  nation- 
ally ranked  John  Brownlow,  the  Hosemen 
whipped  "unbeatable"  Miami  to  hand  this  in- 
tercollegiate kingpin  its  only  loss  in  156  match- 
es. This  PC  squad  and  the  Morris-paced  1956 
one,  which  scored  18  wins  against  just  three 
losses,  get  Leighton's  nod  as  the  strongest  Pres- 
byterian has  produced. 

Three  years  ago  Jim  Leighton,  who  had  at- 
tended Dartmouth  for  one  session  prior  to 
World  War  II,  obtained  permission  of  Pre- 
sident Marshall  W.  Brown  to  resume  his  under- 
graduate studies  at  Presbyterian  while  contin- 
uing to  function  as  tennis  coach.  He  received 
bis  bachelor's  degree  here  on  June  4  and  is 
scheduled  to  begin  graduate  work  in  sociology 
at  the  University  of  Connecticut  next  fall. 

And  so  with  the  end  of  the  1961  tennis  sea- 
son, as  Jim  Leighton  pointed  to  a  new  career 
after  a  12-year  coaching  span  here,  another 
colorful  personality  moved  from  the  Presby- 
terian College  sports  scene. 


Shooting   long   baskets  .  .  . 

Vanderbilt  Coaching  Reins 
Go  to  PC's  Skip  Skinner 

K  former  star  Presbyterian  College  basket- 
ball  player  recently  was  named  head  basket- 
ball coach  at  Vanderbilt  University.  He  is  Roy 
"Skip"  Skinner,  who  moved  up  from  assistant 
coach  to  succeed  retiring  Bob  Polk  in  this  ca- 
pacity. 

Skinner,  a  1952  graduate  of  PC,  thus  assumes 
direction  of  a  cage  program  which  has  moved 
into  national  prominence  in  recent  years.  Last 
season,  Vanderbilt  finished  in  a  tie  with  Ken- 
tucky for  the  Southeastern  Conference  title 
but  lost  in  a  playoff  to  determine  the  NCAA 
tournament  representative. 

The  31-year-old  PC  alumnus  first  joined  the 
Vanderbilt  staff  in  1957  after  coaching  Paducah 
Junior  College  to  the  Kentucky  Junior  College 
championship.  He  served  as  acting  coach  dur- 
ing the  1958-59  season  when  illness  struck 
Polk  and  finished  with  a  14-10  record  to  rank 
fifth  in  the  SEC. 

In  making  the  announcement  of  Skinner's 
appointment.  Vice  Chancellor  John  Stambaugh 
said  the  athletic  committee  unanimously  ap- 
proved the  elevation  of  Skinner.  He  added: 

"Roy  Skinner  in  every  way  demonstrated 
he  has  earned  the  job.  He  understands  Vander- 
bilt's  basic  philosophy  with  respect  to  athlet- 
ics. His  record,  although  he  is  a  young  coach, 
has  indicated  he  is  an  excellent  student  of  the 
game." 

He  is  married  to  the  former  Betty  Jo  Led- 
ford  of  Greenville,  whom  he  met  when  she 
taught  school  in  Clinton,  and  they  have  four 
children. 


PC's    1961    FOOTBALL  SCHEDULE 

Date 

Opponent 

Place 

Time 

Sept. 

16 

Furman 

Greenville,   S.   C. 

D 

Sept. 

23 

Lenoir  Rhyne 

Hickory,   N.    C. 

N 

Sept. 

30 

Wofford 

Clinton,   S.    C. 

D 

Oct. 

14 

Davidson 

Davidson.   N.    C. 

D 

Oct. 

21 

Univ.  of  Tampa                     Clinton,    S.    C. 

N 

Oct. 

28 

Catawba 

Clinton,   S.   C. 

(Homecoming) 

N 

Nov. 

4 

Chattanooga 

Chattanooga,    Tenn. 

N 

Nov. 

11 

Appalachian 

Clinton,   S.   C. 
(Parents   Day) 

N 

Nov. 

17 

Elon 

Elon,    N.    C. 

N 

Nov. 

23 

Newberry 

Newberry,  S.  C. 
(Thanksgiving) 

D 

Summer,  1961 


19 


Down    The   Avenue   of   Classes 


1922 

Dr.  Louis  C.  LaMotte,  presi- 
dent of  Presbyterian  Junior  Col- 
lege, will  be  director  of  adult 
education  and  summer  school  for 
St.  Andrews  Presbyterian  Col- 
lege when  the  new  school  opens 
this  fall.  He  became  president 
cf  PJC  in  1939  and  has  served 
for  the  past  three  years  as  vice- 
president  of  the  consolidating 
efforts  combining  PJC  and  two 
other  colleges  into  St.  Andrews. 

1925 

Col.  Harold  L.  Fuller,  US  Air 
Force  retired,  is  now  living  in 
Greenville,  S.  C,  at  342  Crosby 
Circle.  He  is  a  general  agent 
with  the  Government  Personnel 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company. 

1926 

Dr.  Delmar  O.  Rhame  of  Clin- 
ton recently  was  inducted  as  a 
member  of  the  International 
College  of  Surgeons.  He  attend- 
ed the  organization's  Congress 
held  at  Chicago  to  be  received 
into  the  group.  Dr.  Rhame,  who 


has  served  Clinton  and  PC  since 
receiving  his  medical  degree 
from  Columbia  University  in 
1930,  is  co-owner  of  Hays  Hospi- 
tal here. 

1927 

Dr.  I.  M.  Bagnal  and  Mrs.  Bag- 
nal  are  in  Scotland,  where  Dr. 
Bagnal  is  filling  the  pulpit  of 
Old  St.  Andrews  Church  in 
Helensburg  on  an  exchange  basis 
during  July  while  Scottish  pas- 
tor John  H.  Dutch  preaches  at 
Bagnal's  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Bennettsville,  S.  C. 
The  Bagnals  sailed  by  ocean 
liner  from  New  York  City  on 
June  10.  Their  schedule  called 
for  visiting  in  France,  Germany 
and  Holland  before  moving  on 
to  England  and  then  to  Scotland 
for  the  month  of  July. 

1928 

Walter  W.  Bankhead  of  York, 
S.  C,  has  been  an  insurance  un- 
derwriter with  the  Metropolitan 
Life  Insurance  Company  since 
1930.  He  lives  at  208  Wiley  Ave- 
nue. 


Roy  Allen  Barnett  has  served 
as  manager  of  the  Spur  Oil 
Company  of  Covington,  Ga.,  for 
the  past  three  years.  He  taught 
school  and  coached  for  a  number 
of  years  prior  to  World  War  II, 
was  with  the  Georgia  depart- 
ment of  labor  for  six  years  and 
held  a  position  with  the  Nehi 
Bottling  Company  of  Covington 
prior  to  his  assuming  his  pres- 
ent  post. 

1929 

James  F.  Adair  serves  as  a 
divisional  manager  with  Sears 
Roebuck  and  Company  in  Arl- 
ington, Va.  His  residence  is  5805 
Sonoma   Road,   Bethesda    14,    Md. 

Adger  McCrorey  Carter  re- 
tired last  August  from  the  US 
Army  with  the  rank  of  colonel 
in  the  finance  corps.  He  had 
served  for  almost  25  years.  Now 
active  in  the  religious  and  civic 
life  of  Augusta,  Ga.,  he  resides 
at  3184  Wheeler  Road. 

1931 

Dr.  Ross  Lynn,  headmaster  of 
the  Memphis  (Tenn.)  University 
School,  has  recently  been  named 


Among  the  reuniting  alumni  who  attended  the  1961  Alumni  Banquet  were  these  members  of  the  1917- 
20  group:  From  the  left,  seated— T.  Q.  McKeown  '18,  William  D.  Fulton  '18,  Dr.  P.  J.  Manson  '18,  C.  E.  "Chick" 
Galloway  '19,  and  Frank  Wilson  '18.  Standing — Dr.  John  A.  Colclough  '18,  the  Rev.  James  H.  Dulin  '20,  John 
H.  Hunter  '18  and  the  Rev.  Russell  W.   Park  '20. 


to  positions  of  responsibility  in 
two  other  areas  of  academic  en- 
deavor. He  is  a  first  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Southern  Association 
of  Independent  Schools,  and  he 
is  a  new  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  Southwestern  Uni- 
versity. 

1933 

John  W.  Dillard  resides  in  New 
York  City,  where  is  a  free  lance 
writer.  His  address:  140  W. 
Tenth  Street,  New  York  14. 

1934 

Kennerly  R.  Corbett,  a  special 
agent  with  the  Federal  Bureau 
of  Investigation  since  1936,  is 
situated  in  Florence,  S.  C,  where 
he  resides  at  1019  S.  Edisto 
Drive. 

1935 

Doyle  W.  Boggs  has  served  as 
principal  of  the  Hartsville  (SC) 
High  School  for  the  past  11 
years.  He  received  his  master's 
degree  from  Duke  in  1951.  Doyle 
and  his  wife — the  former  Car- 
rie C.  Carroll — and  two  children 
live  at  1715  Home  Avenue. 

1937 

E.  Smith  Buchan  of  615  Sandy 
Bluff  Road,  Mullins,  S.  C,  has 
held  the  position  of  vice-presi- 
dent of  A.  H.  Buchan  &  Com- 
pany since  1939,  has  been  presi- 
dent of  the  Davis  National  Bank 
since  1956.  He  and  his  wife,  the 
former  Harriet  Cockfield,  have 
three  children. 

Stuart  B.  Campbell,  Jr.  is  now 
a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Camp- 
bell and  Campbell,  Attorneys  of 
Wytheville,  Va.  He  served  with 
the  US  Department  of  State  for 
a  number  of  years  after  receiv- 
ing his  law  degree  from  the  Uni- 
versity  of  Virginia   in   1941. 

1938 

John  B.  "Jake"  Penland,  sports 
editor  of  The  State  in  Columbia, 
has  been  voted  the  most  out- 
standing sports  writer  in  South 
Carolina  for  the  second  straight 
year.  He  was  named  by  the 
sports  writers  and  radio  and 
television  chiefs  of  the  state  in 
balloting  held  in  connection  with 
the  National  Sportscasters  and 
Sportswriters  Awards.  Penland 
has  been  with  The  State  continu- 
ously since  1938,  except  for  a 
3-% -year  Army  stint  in  World 
War  II,  became  sports  editor  in 


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Sit  High  on  Fraternity  Row 

Uere's  an  interesting  note  along  fraternity  row.  Presbyterian, 
with  just  six  national  social  fraternities,  has  alumni  serving 
on  the  national  level  with  three  of  these  organizations. 

The  Rev.  W.  McLeod  Frampton  '34  of  Orangeburg,  S.  C. 
has  served  as  Knight  Commander,  the  top  elected  officer,  of 
Kappa  Alpha  Order  since  1957.  L.  A.  McCall,  Jr.  '35  of  Flor- 
ence, S.  C.  long  has  been  a  member  of  the  national  council  and 
national  officer  of  Pi  Kappa  Alpha.  And  now  the  latest  to 
join  the  group — Ben  W.  Covington  '33  of  Myrtle  Beach,  S.  C, 
last  August  was  named  to  the  national  council  of  Pi  Kappa 
Phi. 

As  an  incidental  footnote,  these  three  are  the  oldest  social 
fraternities  on  the  PC  campus.  Pi  Kappa  Alpha  was  established 
here  in  1890;  Pi  Kappa  Phi,  in  1907;  and  Kappa  Alpha,   1921. 


1942.  He  is  married  to  the  for- 
mer Bernice  Downing  of  Miami, 
and  they  reside  at  5744  Lake 
Shore  Drive,   Columbia,   S.  C. 

1939 

Joel  A.  Chapman,  a  native  of 
Anderson,  S.  C,  serves  as  su- 
perindent  of  the  Port  Gibson 
(Miss.)  schools.  He  holds  a 
master's  degree  from  Columbia 
University. 

1940 

David  Pinckney  Berry  of  Un- 
ion, S.  C,  is  president  and  trea- 
surer of  the  Union  Insurance 
and  Trust  Company.  He  and  his 
wife — the  former  Mary  Louise 
Kennedy  —  live  at  121  Circle 
Drive   with   their   three   children. 


Bagnal  '27 


1941 

Richard  H.  Carpenter,  assistant 
vice-president  of  Alester  G. 
Furman  Co.  of  Greenville,  S.  C, 
has  been  elected  president  of  the 
South  Carolina  Association  of 
Real  Estate  Boards.  He  previous- 
ly had  served  the  association  as 
secretary   and   treasurer. 

Col.  Powell  A.  Fraser  has  been 
serving  since  last  fall  as  deputy 
chief  of  staff  for  personnel  of 
the  Military  Assistance  Advisory 
Group,  Republic  of  China,  on 
Formosa.  He  reports  accommo- 
dations for  the  family  and 
schools  for  the  children  are  all 
excellent,  expects  to  be  there 
until  June,  1962.  His  address: 
Headquarters  MAAG  (DCSP- 
ER),  APO  63,  San  Francisco. 

1942 

Joe  W.  Brunson,  Jr.,  is  owner 
ol  the  Cedar  Grove  Farm  near 
Jakin,  Ga.  For  several  years  aft- 
er World  War  II,  he  was  associ- 
ated as  a  partner  in  a  drug  com- 
pany  and   a   hardware   company. 

Albert  W.  Ford,  Jr.,  operates 
the  Port  City  Building  Supply 
Company  of  Georgetown,  S.  C. 
He  and  his  wife,  the  former 
Louise  Coe  '42  now  have  three 
children — two    girls    and    a    boy. 

1943 

Dr.  Martin  Abbott  has  spent 
the  past  year  on  a  Fulbright 
grant  in  West  Germany.  He  has 
been  lecturing  in  English  on 
American  history  and  civilization 
at    the    Interpreters'    Institute,    a 


Summer,   1961 


21 


The  25th  anniversary  of  the  Class  of  193G  received  the  special  attention  of  this  reunion  group:  Seated — 
Maxwell  Ferguson  '36,  Jim  McClary  '36,  H.  D.  Cranford  '36,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Blakely  Monroe  '36,  Judge  J. 
Hewlette  Wasson  '38,  the  Rev.  Hubert  G.  Wardlaw  '38,  and  Mrs.  Annie  Lee  Jackson  Wardlaw  '35.  Standing 
— F.  W.  Frowein  '36,  Tom  Estes  '36,  George  Plunkett  '37,  William  C.  McSween  '39,  Tom  Plaxico  '36,  W.  Dean 
Power,   Jr.   '38,   Mrs.    Frances   Spratt   Glover   '36   and   the  Rev.  Ernest  J.  Arnold  '36. 


branch  of  the  University  of  Mainz 
at  Germersheim.  Abbott,  his 
wife  and  two  children  (who  at- 
tended local  German  schools) 
will  return  in  late  July  to  At- 
lanta, where  he  holds  the  posi- 
tion of  professor  of  history  at 
Oglethorpe    University. 

Miss  Florence  E.  Blakely,  who 
serves  as  head  of  the  reference 
department  of  the  Duke  Univer- 
sity library,  received  her  master 
of  arts  degree  from  George  Pea- 
body  College  for  Teachers  in 
June,  1960.  She  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  Duke  library 
since    1948. 

J.  H.  "Doc"  Query  was  re- 
cently appointed  vice-president 
of  the  Baker  Equipment  Engi- 
neering Company,  a  firm  with 
branches  in  North  Carolina, 
South  Carolina,  Pennsylvania  and 
Virginia.  He  became  the  first 
vice-president  in  the  history  of 
the  company.  Query  manages  the 
South  Carolina  branch,  with 
headquarters  in  Columbia,  and 
he  resides  at  1337  Sunnyside 
Drive. 

1946 

The  Rev.  Clebon  Henry  Suth- 
erland   serves    as    pastor    of    the 


Garner  Memorial  Baptist  Church 
of  Anderson,  S.  C. 

1947 

Herman  E.  Cain  has  served  as 
superintendent  of  the  Wampee- 
Little  River  School  of  Ocean 
Drive  Beach,  S.  C,  since  1956. 
He  is  married  to  the  former 
Joanne  Seegars  and  they  have 
four  children. 


1948 

W.  C.  Bennett  recently  was 
promoted  to  the  position  of  vice- 
president  with  the  Arthur  State 
Bank  of  Union,  S.  C.  He  joined 
the  organization  in  1948,  after 
finishing  PC,  and  had  served  as 
manager  of  its  Monarch  Drive-In 
branch  for  the  past  four  years. 
He  is  married  to  the  former 
Louise  Ridings  of  Clinton,  and 
they  have  two  children. 

The  Rev.  David  Moorefield  has 
served  for  the  past  year  as  pastor 
of  the  Westminster  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Florence.  S.  C.  He 
went  there  after  a  session  on  the 
faculty  of  Columbia  Theological 
Seminary. 


1949 

Clifford  L.  Legerton  is  credit- 
ed with  bringing  to  Charleston, 
S.  C,  a  Navy  League-sponsored 
youth  program  to  educate  and 
train  young  Americans  in  mari- 
time matters.  About  120  Charles- 
ton youngsters  participate  in  two 
units — the  Navy  League  Cadets 
for  boys  12-13  and  the  US  Naval 
Sea  Cadets  for  14  to  17  year- 
olds.  These  units  give  the  boys 
the  closest  thing  to  the  life  of 
a  sailor. 


1950 

Branson  Jones  won  the  Dis- 
tinguished Service  Award  to  be- 
come the  "outstanding  young 
man"  of  1960  in  Concord,  N.  C. 
The  citation  was  presented  by 
the  Junior  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce in  recognition  of  numerous 
personal  and  civic  accomplish- 
ments. Jones  is  assistant  mana- 
ger of  the  Plant  6  office  and 
works  with  the  bedspread  and 
decorative  fabrics  division  of 
Cannon  Mills  Company. 

The  Rev.  Neely  D.  McCarter, 
having  completed  study  toward 
his  doctorate  at  Yale  University 


Summer,   1961 


this  spring,  is  joining  the  faculty 
of  Columbia  Theological  Semin- 
ary in  Decatur,  Ga.,  as  associate 
professor  of  Christian  education. 
He  served  for  several  years  as 
Presbyterian  minister  to  students 
at  the  University  of  Florida  prior 
to  entering  Yale. 

1951 

Capt.  Eddie  Cavaleri  was 
scheduled  to  return  to  this 
country  around  July  1  from  a 
hitch  in  the  Panama  Canal  Zone. 
The  Army  will  send  him  to  the 
University  of  North  Carolina  for 
graduate  study  toward  his  mas- 
ter's degree,  beginning  in  Sep- 
tember. 

The  Rev.  Henry  Galloway  is 
now  pastor  of  the  Plantation 
(Fla.)  Methodist  Church,  near 
Fort  Lauderdale,  Fla.  His  add- 
ress: 5661  SW  First  Court,  Fort 
Lauderdale. 

Bob  Owens  of  Walhalla,  S.  C, 
is  the  recipient  of  the  Distin- 
guished Service  Award  given 
each  year  by  the  Walhalla  Junior 
Chamber  of  Commerce.  His  se- 
lection as  "young  man  of  the 
year"  followed  the  key  man 
award  given  him  by  the  organi- 
zation last  year.  Owens,  principal 
of  the  Walhalla  elementary 
school,  is  a  former  scout  master 
and  is  chairman  of  the  legisla- 
tive committee  of  the  Oconee 
County  Education  Association. 

Blake  L.  Watts,  Hickory,  N.  C, 
business  and  civic  leader,  has 
just  been  named  a  national  di- 
rector of  the  United  States  Junior 
Chamber  of  Commerce.  Prior  to 
his  election  to  the  top  jaycee 
board,  he  was  active  in  the  or- 
ganization's local,  district  and 
state  work  for  the  past  eight 
years   since   moving   to   Hickory. 

1952 

William  E.  Carter,  athletic  di- 
rector and  head  basketball  coach 
at  Heath  High  School,  Paducah, 
Ky.,  received  his  master  of  arts 
degree  from  George  Peabody 
College  for  Teachers  in  June, 
1960.  He  has  been  situated  at 
Heath  School  since  graduation 
from  PC,  resides  at  1317  Pied- 
mont Road,  Paducah,  with  his 
wife  and  four  children. 

The  Rev.  Robert  F.  Hunt  re- 
cently became  pastor  of  the 
Greene  Street  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Augusta,  Ga.  He  served 
the  Summerville  (SO  Church 
and  then  did   graduate  study  at 


Penland  '38 

the  University  of  Edinburgh 
prior  to  assuming  his  new  posi- 
tion. 

Ralph  Douglas  Kiker,  Jr.,  has 
moved  to  Washington,  D.  C,  to 
staff  The  Atlanta  Journal's  bu- 
reau there  as  capital  correspon- 
dent. His  address:  1426  G.  Street 
NW. 

Edward  L.  Mann,  after  five 
years  with  a  consulting  engi- 
neer firm,  has  established  his 
own  firm  as  a  Consulting  Man- 
agement Engineer.  He  resides  at 
71  Strawberry  Hill,  Stamford, 
Conn. 

1953 

Bruce  Galloway  has  just  com- 
pleted his  course  of  study  at 
Emory  (Ga.)  Divinity  School. 
He    previously    served    with    the 


YMCA   before   deciding  to  enter 
the    Methodist   ministry. 

The  Rev.  A.  B.  Plexico  fills  the 
pulpits  of  three  Presbyterian 
churches  in  Bethel  (SC)  Presby- 
tery, his  native  territory  —  at 
Blackstock,  where  he  and  his 
family  reside  in  the  manse,  Con- 
cord and  Cornwell. 

1954 

Capt.  James  L.  Templeton,  Jr. 
completed  the  officer  career 
course  at  the  Chemical  School, 
Fort  McClellan,  Ala.,  on  May  26. 
The  nine-month  course  is  de- 
signed to  prepare  the  student  to 
assume  the  increased  command 
and  staff  responsibilities  of  a 
senior  officer  in  the  Chemical 
Corps.  During  the  course,  Tem- 
pleton received  instruction  in 
chemical  and  biological  warfare, 
nuclear  warfare  and  radiological 
defense,  signal  communications, 
management  techniques  and  lo- 
gistics. He  entered  the  Army 
immediately    after   finishing   PC. 

William  B.  Toole  prepares  to 
enter  his  second  year  as  an  in- 
structor in  English  at  Vander- 
bilt  University,  where  he  also  is 
completing  work  on  his  doctor- 
ate in  this  field.  He  taught  Eng- 
lish at  PC  for  three  years,  1956- 
59. 


1955 

The  Rev.  Tom  C.  Cook,  Jr., 
serves  as  chaplain  of  the  Cham- 
berlain-Hunt Academy  at  Port 
Gibson,  Miss. 


More   amid   Atlanta   greenbacks: 

Here's  the  Count  at  First  National 

Add  to  the  spring  issue  featurette  on  PC  alumni  as  young 
Atlanta  Bank  executives: 

Besides  the  five  listed  with  the  Citizens  and  Southern  Na- 
tional Bank  there,  another  four  alumni  are  with  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Atlanta.  That  makes  nine  young  Presbyterian 
College  graduates  currently  serving  with  these  two  great  bank- 
ing institutions. 

The  four  with  the  First  National  Bank  are:  John  Thurman 
'51,  assistant  cashier  of  the  West  End  branch;  Joe  Weingartner 
'51  assistant  cashier  soon  to  be  assistant  manager  of  a  new 
branch  in  the  Atlanta  Merchandise  Mart;  Bill  Hart  '57,  in  charge 
of  the  business  development  section  of  the  account  administra- 
tion department;  and  James  R.  Johnson  '50  assistant  manager 
of  the  office  services  department. 

The  Citizen  and  Southern  boys,  listed  earlier:  Bennett  A. 
Brown  '50,  Jack  B.  Edmunds,  Jr.  '55,  Warren  L.  Berry  '55,  Ed- 
wynn  B.  Pyron  '56  and  Don  Rickett  '57. 


Summer,   1961 


23 


Thomas  H.  Alexander  for  the 
past  year  has  been  associated  in 
the  insurance  business  with 
Stuckey  &  Alexander,  Inc.,  of 
Bishopville,  S.  C.  He  and  his 
wife,  the  former  Mary  Elizabeth 
Oeland,   have  a  young  son. 

1956 

Robert  Smith  Dowdle  is  em- 
ployed with  the  Fulbright  La- 
boratories, industrial  water  con- 
sultants, of  Charlotte,  N.  C.  He 
lives  at  622  N.  Wilson  St.,  Rock 
Hill,  S.  C. 

Dick  Mendenhall  wrote  and 
produced  the  material  which  en- 
abled Radio  Station  WSAC  at 
Fort  Knox,  Ky.,  to  receive  the 
1961  National  Headliners  Club 
Award  for  Public  Service  by  a 
local  radio  station.  The  award 
was  presented  in  April  on  the 
basis  of  the  station's  campaign 
against  deplorable  sanitation 
conditions  in  several  Hardin 
County  public  schools.  Menden- 
hall, formerly  connected  with 
WWIT  (Canton,  NC)  and  WGAU 
(Athens,  Ga.),  has  headed  the 
WSAC  department  for  news  and 
public  affairs  since  last  October. 

First  LX.  Frank  C.  Young  has 
been  attached  to  Brooke  Army 
General  Hospital  in  San  Antonio, 
Tex.,  for  the  past  year  since  com- 
pleting the  Medical  College  of 
Charleston.  His  address:  242 
Claremont    Ave.,    San    Antonio. 


1957 

Herbert  J.   Butler   is   president 


of  the  Carolina  Dismantling  Com- 
pany, Charleston,  S.  C,  and  re- 
ports have  him  busily  engaged 
in  fulfilling  demolition  contracts 
over  a  wide  area.  Last  fall  he 
was  awarded  the  job  of  disman- 
tling the  Old  Augusta  Cotton  Mill 
in  Augusta,  Ga.,  a  $100,000  pro- 
ject expected  to  take  a  year  to 
complete  and  meanwhile  he  car- 
ries on  other  dismantling  opera- 
tions. His  business  address:  615 
Meeting  Street. 

The  Rev.  James  Monte  Cook 
completed  his  training  at  Union 
Theological  Seminary  in  Rich- 
mond last  January  and  is  now 
pastor  of  the  Edgemont  Presby- 
terian Church,  Rocky  Mount, 
N.  C.  His  wife,  the  former  Jac- 
queline Truhick  '57  received  her 
master's  in  Christian  Education 
from  the  Presbyterian  School  of 
Christian  Education  in  June, 
1960,  studying  there  while  they 
lived  in  Richmond. 

Ramon  Veal  recently  received 
his  master  of  arts  degree  after 
completing  a  year  of  post-grad- 
uate study  at  Tulane  University. 
He  will  serve  as  an  instructor  in 
English  at  the  new  St.  Andrews 
Presbyterian  College  in  North 
Carolina,  beginning  in  Septem- 
ber. Veal  previously  taught  at 
Darlington   School   in  Rome,   Ga. 

1958 

Ann  Kirkpatrick,  who  teaches 
ninth  grade  general  science  at 
Hughes  Junior  High  in  Green- 
ville, S.  C,  has  received  a  grant 
to  attend  the  National  Science 
Foundation    Academic    Year    In- 


Among  those  attending  from  the  1957-59  reunion  classes  were,  left 
to  right:  Laurence  E.  Young  '58,  Dorothy  Chandler  '59,  Joseph  W. 
Easter,  Jr.  '58  and  Thomas  G.  Pitts  '57. 


stitute  for  Teachers  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Georgia  next  year.  The 
grant  provides  for  all  tuition 
costs  plus  $3,000. 

Alexander  C.  Moorhead  recent- 
ly was  appointed  a  medical  serv- 
ice representative  by  J.  B.  Roer- 
ing  and  Company,  pharmaceutical 
division  of  Chas.  Pfizer  &  Co., 
Inc.  He  will  travel  in  the 
Charleston,  S.  C,  to  Wilmington, 
IN.  C,  area,  bringing  information 
on  the  company's  ethical  drug 
products  and  research  discoveries 
to  members  of  the  health  profes- 
sion. Moorhead,  his  wife  ■ — ■  the 
former  Jean  Poole — and  young 
son  now  live  at  Route  1,  Quail 
Drive,  Lawton  Bluff,  Charleston, 
S.  C. 

Paul  V.  "Sonny"  Phillips,  Jr., 
is  now  on  the  staff  of  The  Ra- 
leigh Times  in  Raleigh,  N.  C. 
Prior  to  joining  this  newspaper, 
he  was  news  editor  of  The  Wil- 
son  (NC)   Daily  Times. 

1959 

Clark  Murff  was  recently  add- 
ed to  the  staff  of  John  Wiley  & 
Sons,  Inc.,  publishers  of  books, 
as  a  traveling  representative  to 
handle  southern   Texas. 

June  Adair  teaches  at  Ed- 
munds High  School  in  Sumter, 
S.  C,  and  makes  her  home  at  12 
Saratogo  Street. 

Richard  B.  Booth  has  been  as- 
sociated with  the  firm  of  M.  Van 
Buren,  Inc.,  commercial  interior 
designer,  of  Charlotte,  N.  C, 
since  his  graduation  from  PC. 
He  resides  on  Route  1,  Matthews, 
N.  C. 

Olin  D.  Briggs  is  night  editor 
of  the  Columbia  (SC)  bureau 
of  United  Press  International. 

1960 

Lt.  William  Peter  Beckman, 
Jr.,  on  June  6  completed  the  of- 
ficer orientation  course  at  the 
Army  Signal  School,  Fort  Mon- 
mouth, N.  C.  The  school  trains 
students  in  over  50  specialized 
courses  in  the  fields  of  radio, 
wire,    radar    and    photography. 

Lt.  Robert  Earl  Elmore,  Jr., 
entered  the  Army  last  October, 
attended  Intelligence  School  at 
Fort  Holabird,  Md.,  and  began  a 
tour  of  duty  in  Germany  last 
April.  He  expects  to  be  overseas 
for  18  months. 

Mickey  Flynn  is  enrolled  as  a 
dental  student  at  the  Medical 
College  of  Virginia  in  Richmond. 


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Summer,  1961 


He  and  his  family — wife  and 
baby  girl— live  at  4923  North 
Crestwood  Avenue. 

1960 

William  H.  Sullivan  is  the 
purchasing  agent  for  the  Talbert 
Manufacturing  Company  of 
Rennsalaer,  Ind.  He  and  his 
family  live  in  nearby  Monnon, 
Ind. 

Jerry  B.  Lesley  is  now  teach- 
ing and  coaching  at  Crescent 
High   School,    Iva,    S.    C. 

1961 

Robert  H.  Ahnan  holds  a  posi- 
tion with  the  Proximity  Print 
Works  of  Greensboro.  N.  C, 
where  he  and  his  wife  reside 
at    1809    Dellwood    Drive. 

Martin  F.  Chitty  plans  to 
teach  at  the  York  (SO  Junior 
High  School,  beginning  in  Sep- 
tember, He'll  take  along  a  new 
bride    (see   weddings). 

Richard  E.  Faulkner  is  now 
installed  in  a  post  with  the 
Wachovia  Bank  and  Trust 
Company  of  Charlotte,  N.  C. 
His  address  there:  2010  Roswell 
Avenue. 

A  fellowship  will  take  Don 
Kay  to  the  University  of  Ten- 
nessee this  fall.  He  will  begin 
work  toward  his  master's  de- 
gree as  a  graduate  assistant  in 
English. 

Harry  G.  McDonnold,  working 
for  the  Western  North  Carolina 
Planning  Board  in  hometown 
Asheville,  N.  C,  this  summer, 
is  scheduled  to  join  the  J.  P. 
Stevens  textile  firm  next  April. 

James  G.  Monroe,  Jr.,  headed 
toward  the  Army,  may  be  ad- 
dressed in  care  of  the  503rd 
MP  Battalion  at  Fort  Bragg, 
N.   C,   after  September   15. 

Thomas  Carroll  Ott  is  em- 
ployed as  a  salesman  with  the 
merchandising  firm  of  Curtis  S. 
Ott  of  Bowman,  S.  C. 

Another  teacher  among  the 
latest  graduates,  Ernie  Redd  will 
begin  his  duties  as  teacher- 
coach  at  Fairforest  (SO  High 
School    this    fall. 

Brit  Spann  has  a  fellowship 
to  enter  the  Clemson  graduate 
school,  where  he  will  work  to- 
ward his  master's  in  mathe- 
matics. While  he  awaits  the  fall 
session,  he  presently  is  employ- 
ed at  the  Blue  Bird  Body  Com- 
pany.   Fort   Valley,    Ga. 

Mrs.  Frances  Estes  Salyer  will 
teach  English  during  the  coming 


For   Whom 


Wedding  Bells  Toll 


Married — Miss  Jo  Lynn  Huff- 
man of  Columbia,  S.  C,  to  James 
Burroughs  Allen,  Jr.  '55  of  Con- 
way. S.  C,  on  June  3,   1961. 

Married  —  Miss  Leila  Grace 
Kosborough  to  John  Milton 
Cooper,  Jr.  '55,  both  of  Mayes- 
ville,  S.  C,  on  June  17,  1961. 

Married — Miss  Ruth  Lawrence 
Pate  of  Sumter,  S.  C.  to  William 
F.  Tiller  '55  of  Mayesville,  S.  C, 
on  July  8,   1961. 

Married  —  Miss  Jewell  Row- 
land Powell  of  Latta,  S.  C.  to 
Robert  Raymond  Hill  '58  of 
Mayesville,   S.   C,  June   12,   1961. 

Married  —  Miss  Muriel  Marie 
Ward  of  Tabor  City,  N.  C,  to 
Maxcy  B.  O'Tuel  '58  of  Florence, 
S.  C,  on  May  28,  1961. 

Married  —  Miss  Luella  Mae 
Trogdon  of  Spartanburg.  S.  C, 
to  William  K.  Stacy,  Jr.  '58  of 
Anderson,  S.  C.  on  June  7,  1961. 

Married  —  Miss  Amelia  Rae 
Dossett  to  Patrick  E.  Wilson  '58 
of  Columbia.  S.  C,  on  March  25, 
1961. 

Married — Miss  Frances  Eliza- 
beth Culp  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  to 
Richard  DeVon  Carter  '59  of  De- 
catur,  Ga.,   on  May  27,   1961. 

Married — Miss  Jane  Vandiver 
Harper  to  William  Porter  '59, 
both  of  Anderson,  S.  C,  on  April 
29,    1961. 

Married  —  Miss  Zelonia  Gayle 
Robertson  '59  of  Greenville,  S. 
C,  to  Ronald  W.  Likens  of 
Greenville,    on    June    17,    1961. 

Married — Miss  Elizabeth  Jane 
Kamer  of  Clinton,  S.  C,  to  John 
R.  Crandall  '60  of  Orlanda,  Fla., 
on  June  9,   1961. 

Married  —  Miss  Fay  Miller  to 
Eugene  L.  McKethan,  Jr.  '60  of 
Favetteville,  N.  C.  on  June  18, 
1960. 

Married — Miss  Sharon  E.  Belk 
to  Robert  F.  Stratton  '60  of  Char- 
lotte, N.  C,  on  February  18,  1961. 

Married — Miss  Marion  Lemuel 
Surratt  to  Jesse  Eugene  John- 
ston, Jr..  '61  both  of  Joanna,  S. 
C,  on  June  10.  1961. 

Married  —  Miss  Jacqueline 
Elaine  Felkel  of  Elloree,  S.  C, 
to  Thomas  Sidney  Ott  '61  of 
Bowman,  S.  C,  on  May  7,  1961. 

year  at  the  John  Gorrie  Junior 
High  School  of  Jacksonville,  Fla. 
She  and  husband  Bobby  J.  Sal- 
yer '61  are  residing  at  3540 
Morrow  St. 


Married  —  Miss  Frances  Doris 
Estes  '61  of  Laurens,  S.  C,  to 
Bobby  J.  Salyer  '61  of  Jackson- 
ville, Fla.,  on  June  3,  1961. 

Married  —  Miss  Mary  Louise 
Thompson  to  John  Julian  Allen 
(student)  both  of  Conway,  S.  C, 
on  June  6,   1961. 

Married  —  Miss  Mary  Frances 
Wolfe  to  Robert  A.  Collins  (stu- 
dent) both  of  Monroe,  N.  C,  on 
April  30,   1961. 

Married  —  Miss  Patsy  Ann 
Harvey  to  Belton  Jackson  (stu- 
dent) both  from  Lyman,  S.  C, 
on  June  10,  1961. 

Married — Miss  Margaret  Jan- 
ice Martin  and  Robert  W.  Joiner 
(student)  both  of  Macon,  Ga., 
in  April,   1961. 

Married — Miss  Suzanne  Thom- 
ason  of  Greenwood.  S.  C,  to 
Vernon  Roland,  Jr.  (student)  of 
Kingsport,  Tenn.,  on  March  7, 
1961. 

Married — Miss  Ellen  Virginia 
Wilson  (student)  of  Savannah, 
Ga.,  to  Lovell  Smith  (student) 
of  Asheville,  N.  C,  on  May  28, 
1961. 

Engaged  —  Miss  Jean  Berkley 
Huffman  to  Leslie  Hammer  Pat- 
terson '55  both  of  Columbia,  S.  C. 
To  be  married  in  the  fall. 

Engaged  —  Miss  Marion  Ann 
Barry  of  Jackson,  Miss.,  to  Fran- 
cis Borel  Mayes  '56  of  Winns- 
boro,  S.  C.  To  be  married  in 
August,    1961. 

Engaged — Miss  Betty  Jo  Nich- 
ols of  Saluda,  S.  C.  to  James  W. 
Livingston  '58  of  Moncks  Cor- 
ner, S.  C.  To  be  married  July  1, 
1961. 

Engaged — Miss  Alethea  Flem- 
ing Massey  of  Charlotte,  N.  C,  to 
Richard  Bronson  Booth  '59  of 
Matthews,  N.  C.  To  be  married 
in  October,  1961. 

Engaged — Miss  Ann  Gettys  '60 
of  Clinton,  S.  C,  to  David  W. 
Nash  of  Little  Rock,  Ark.  To  be 
married  on  September  1,  1961. 

Engaged — Miss  Sylvia  Land  to 
Martin  F.  Chitty  '61  of  Den- 
mark, S.  C.  To  be  married  on 
August   20,    1961. 

Engaged  —  Miss  Sandra  Ruth 
Davis  of  Clinton,  S.  C,  to  Robert 
Paul  Watts  (student),  also  of 
Clinton.  To  be  married  in  Au- 
gust,   1961. 


Summer,  1961 


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Born  to — Mrs.  Catherine  Rice 
Cunningham  and  Jack  P.  Cun- 
ningham '40  of  Greenville,  S.  C. 
— a  son,  Jeffrey — on  October  8, 
1960. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Muriel  Harmon 
Lake  and  Kemper  D.  Lake  '43  of 
Whitmire,  S.  C. — a  son,  Kemper, 
Jr 

Born  to — Mrs.  Beverly  Magbee 
GUlis  '48  and  C.  Reid  Gillis  of 
Austell,  Ga. — a  daughter,  Missy 
Marie— on   Sept.   22,    1960. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Mary  McDonald 
Bowles  and  Richard  N.  Bowles 
'49  of  Augusta,  Ga.  —  a  son, 
Ralph— on  September  27,  1960. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Virginia  Henry 
McKinnon  '49  and  William  P. 
McKinnon  '52  of  Hampton,  S.  C. 
— a  daughter,  Mary  Caroline — on 
February  22,   1961. 


Augusta,  Ga. — a  daughter,  Ca- 
ren —  on  August  1,  1960. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Betty  Ward 
Hardee  and  F.  Stanley  Hardee, 
Jr.  '53  of  Thomasville,  N.  C— a 
son,    Ray — on    January    14,    1961. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Mirta  Ramas 
Lindsey  and  Haskell  D.  hindsey, 
Jr.  '53  of  Greenwood,  S.  C— a 
daughter,  Debra  Lynn — on  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1961. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Dianne  Robert- 
son Templeton  and  James  L. 
Templeton,  Jr.  '54  of  Laurens, 
S.  C. — a  daughter,  Sharon  —  on 
February   15,    1961. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Nina  Cantey 
Bradley  '57  and  William  C.  Brad- 
ley '54  of  Columbia,  S.  C. — a  son, 
Grady  Cantey— on  July  19,  1960. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Nancy  Cockfield 
Harwell  and  B.  Hicks  Harwell  '54 


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Born  to  —  Mrs.  Jean  Harris 
Byrum  '49  and  William  V.  Byrum 
'50  of  Spartanburg,  S.  C,  a  son, 
John  William— on  May  8,   1961. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Ruth  Hilton 
Little  and  Henry  T.  Little  '49  of 
Greenville,  S.  C. — a  daughter — 
on  June   16,   1961. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Betty  Johnson 
Copley  and  William  C.  Copley 
'50  of  Aiken,  S.  C— a  daughter, 
Amy— on  August   16,   1960. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Elizabeth  Craig 
DuBose  and  Cantey  C.  DuBose, 
Jr.  '50  of  Seneca,  S.  C. — a  daugh- 
ter, Lila  Ann — on  February  18, 
1961. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Mary  Hankinson 
King  and  William  R.  King  '51  of 
Savannah,  Ga. — a  daughter,  Carol 
Louise — on   March   31,    1961. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Jean  Tolbert 
Lyndon  and  Righton  Lyndon  '51 
of  Macon,  Ga. — a  daughter,  Ann 
Clair — on  January  21,  1961. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Virginia  Clark 
Jackson  and  Kirby  B.  Jackson 
'52  of  Marion,  S.  C. — a  son,  Kir- 
by,  Jr. — on  November  6,   1960. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Ameta  Kirby 
Ashe  and  E.  K.  Ashe  '53  of  North 
Augusta,  S.  C. — a  son,  Bryan — 
on  January  19,  1961. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Betty  Bryant 
Fulk  and  Emmett  A.  Fulk  '53  of 


of  Florence,  S.  C. — a  daughter, 
Jennie — on  December  7,   1960. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Alice  Temple- 
ton Shillinglaw  and  William  C. 
Shillinglaw,  Jr.  '54  of  Charlotte, 
N.  C. — a  son,  Scott — on  July  13, 
1960. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Sally  Porter 
Haddix  and  Guy  E.  Haddix  '57 
of  Morgantown,  W.  Va.  —  a 
daughter,  Holli  Fae — on  Novem- 
ber 7,   1960. 

Born  to — Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  C. 
Hall  '57  of  Atlanta,  Ga. — a  son, 
William  Bradley  —  on  April  30, 
1961. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Carolyn  Rush 
Neighbors  and  Dillard  D.  Neigh- 
bors '57  of  Laurens,  S.  C. — a  son, 
Albert  Lee— on  October  16,  1960. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Ria  Martin  Ful- 
ton and  William  J.  Fulton  '58  of 
Atlanta,  Ga. — a  daughter,  Tama- 
ra   Lee — on   December   19,    1960. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Joan  Senn  Hol- 
mes and  Jack  P.  Holmes  '58  of 
Enoree,  S.  C. — a  son,  Jeffrey — 
on  November  24,  1960. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Linda  Cox  Lipp 
and  William  O.  Lipp  '58  of  Chi- 
cago, Illinois  —  a  son,  David 
Ralph— on  March  31,  1961. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Ren  Gamble 
Carter  and  J.  Warren  Carter  '58 
of  Lake  City,  S.  C. — a  daughter, 


Laura    Renn   —   on   October    19, 
1960. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Nina  Smythe 
Kirby  and  Harold  W.  Kirby  '58 
of  Union,  S.  C.  —  a  daughter, 
Virginia  Elizabeth — on  February 
6,    1961. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Doris  Tolbert 
Burns  and  Raleigh  H.  Burns  '59 
of  Decatur,  Ga. — a  son,  Paul — 
on   September   20,    1960. 

Born  to — Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hey- 
ward  R.  McConnell  '59  of  Green- 
ville, S.  C. — a  son,  Ross  Blake — 
on  April   1,   1961. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Margaret  Lovett 
McElveen  and  Charles  L.  Mc- 
Elveen.  Jr.  '59  of  Kingstree,  S.  C. 
—  -  a  son,  Douglas  Graham  —  on 
April   16,   1961. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Patricia  Pad- 
gett Quinn  and  Charles  E.  Quinn 
'59  of  Greenville,  S.  C. — a  daugh- 
ter,   Tricia — on    August    11,    1960. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Bert  Wallace 
Chastain  and  William  Paul  Chas- 
tain  '60  of  Central,  S.  C.  —  a 
daughter,  Paula  Ann — on  April 
11,  1961. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Brenda  Smith 
Flynn  and  Mitchell  L.  Flynn  '60 
of  Richmond,  Va.  —  a  daughter, 
Jane— on  August  27,   1960. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Nancy  Simpson 
Simmons  and  Harold  W.  Sim- 
mons '60  of  Aiken,  S.C. — a  son, 
Harold  Steven — on  January  12, 
1961. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Nancy  Keys 
Reed  and  Lee  Scott  Reed  '60  of 
Anderson,  S.  C.  —  a  daughter, 
Stephanie  Ann  —  on  April  24, 
1961. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Trudy  Cameron 
Segrest  and  Donald  H.  Segrest 
'60  of  Union  Springs,  Ala.  —  a 
son,  McCaskill  —  on  April  2, 
1961. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Catherine  Pa- 
trick Bridges  and  Donald  Brid- 
ges '61  of  Decatur,  Ga. — a  daugh- 
ter, Tracy — on  April  16,  1961. 

Born  to  —  Mrs.  Jane  Moore 
Rhymer  and  Richard  W.  Rhy- 
mer '61  of  Spartanburg,  S.  C. — 
a  daughter,  Martha  Elizabeth — 
on  May  30,  1961. 

Born  to — Mrs.  Gail  Griggs  Col- 
lins and  Thomas  Collins  '61  of 
Pageland,  S.  C.  —  a  son,  David 
Albert— on  June  5,  1961. 

Born  to  —  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jack 
Cornwell  '61  of  Chester — a  son, 
Scott— in  May,  1961. 

Born  to — Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jack 
Fallaw  '61  of  Rock  Hill,  S.  C— a 
daughter,  Nancy  Ann — on  April 
2,  1961. 


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Summer,  1961 


News  items  from  SREB: 


Spotlight  on  Higher  Education 


Colleges  all  over  the  South  and  nation  face 
a  serious  problem  in  obtaining  new  faculty 
members.  Good  teachers  and  researchers  are 
in  short  supply,  and  will  be  hard  to  obtain 
for  the  next  decade. 

Today,  the  university  produces  the  Ph.D., 
but  is  more  than  likely  to  lose  him  to  govern- 
mental or  industrial  jobs  at  premium  salaries. 
The  result  is  a  growing  shortage  of  Ph.D's  to 
staff  our  college  classrooms.  The  shortage  is 
telling  on  faculty  quality.  College  administra- 
tors are  increasingly  having  to  compromise  and 
take  an  inexperienced  man  with  an  M.  A. 
rather  than  a  man  with  a  Ph.D. 

In  1954,  about  31  percent  of  the  new  teach- 
ers in  colleges  and  universities  had  earned 
the  doctor's  degree.  In  1958,  only  23  percent 
had  reached  that  level   of  preparation. 

Of  the  total  teachers,  old  and  new  in  our 
colleges,  nearly  half  hold  the  Ph.D.  but  more 
than  three-fourths  of  the  newcomers  to  col- 
lege and  university  teaching  do  not  have 
one.  In  the  years  to  come,  the  proportion  of 
Ph.D.'s  to  non-Ph.D.'s  may  diminish  even  fur- 
ther. 

The  problem  has  developed  at  a  time  when 
America  needs  the  best  teachers  it  can  get 
to  train  future  scientists  and  doctors,  social 
scientists  and  humanists. 

The  South  will  probably  need  no  less  than 
50,000  new  college  teachers  during  the  next 
ten  years.  Yet  only  15,000  to  20,000  Ph.D.'s 
will  be  graduated  in  the  region  during  that 
time.  And  at  least  half  of  these  are  expected 
to  go  into  industry  and  government  rather 
than  into  the  college  and  university  faculties. 

Family   Income   and   College   Attendance 

Higher  education  has  become  a  cost  item  of 
great  importance  to  the  Southern  family  plan- 
ning to  send  a  son  or  daughter  to  college. 

The  average  annual  bill  for  an  unmarried 
college  student  in  the  United  States  today  is 
$1,550,  the  Southern  Regional  Educational 
Eoard  has  reported  in  its  publication,  "Financ- 
ing Higher  Education."  That  figure,  taken 
from  a  nationwide  survey  completed  by  the 
Survey  Research  Center  at  the  University  of 
Michigan,  is  a  conservative  figure  which  does 
not  include  such  items  as  clothing  and  radios 
or  other  extras. 

Family  income  level  is  a  vital  determinant 
of  who  goes  to  college.  Thirty  nine  percent 
of  parents  earning  less  that  $3,000  expect  their 
children  to  go  to  college,  while  95  percent  of 
parents  earning  $10,000  and  over  expect  to  see 
their  offspring   in  college,   the  SREB   reports. 

Summer,  1961 


In  both  cases,  fewer  children  go  than  are 
expected  to — only  12  percent  of  the  lower  in- 
come children  do  get  to  college  and  65  per- 
cent of  the  upper  income  group  go. 

The  greatest  disappointment,  however, 
comes  to  the  middle  income  range.  In  the 
$5,000  to  $7,000  group  80  percent  expect  their 
children  to  go  to  college  and  only  28  per  cent 
actually  go. 

Industry's   College   Grads   Increase 

For  100  years  before  1950,  over  60  percent  of 
the  college  graduates  used  to  become  lawyers, 
preachers  or  doctors,  but  by  1950,  only  14  per- 
cent were  in  these  groups.  Between  1950-1960, 
there  was  four-fold  increase  of  college  gradu- 
ates among  the  remaining  occupations  which 
are  found,  for  the  most  part,  in  commerce 
and  industry. 

South    Leads   in    Educational   TV 

Almost  half  of  the  educational  TV  stations 
in  the  country  are  located  in  the  Southern  re- 
gion. The  South  also  had  the  distinction  of 
having  the  first  station  in  the  nation  at  Hous- 
ton University  in  1953  and  organizing  the 
first  state  ETV  network  in  Alabama. 


.  AND   WE  XL  TAKE  THE  LOW   ROAD,  AND 

THEY'LL   GET   ALL   OUR   BONNY   GOOD   TEACHERS!" 


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